Isaiah 37:22

37:22 this is what the Lord says about him: ¹ 

“The virgin daughter Zion ² 

despises you – she makes fun of you;

daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head after you. ³ 

Isaiah 62:11

62:11 Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth: ⁴ 

“Say to Daughter Zion,

‘Look, your deliverer comes!

Look, his reward is with him

and his reward goes before him!’” ⁵ 

Micah 4:13

4:13 “Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion!

For I will give you iron horns; ⁶ 

I will give you bronze hooves,

and you will crush many nations.” ⁷ 

You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them,

and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler ⁸  of the whole earth. ⁹ 

[37:22]  ¹ tn Heb “this is the word which the Lord has spoken about him.”

[37:22]  ² sn Zion (Jerusalem) is pictured here as a young, vulnerable daughter whose purity is being threatened by the would-be Assyrian rapist. The personification hints at the reality which the young girls of the city would face if the Assyrians conquer it.

[37:22]  ³ sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.

[62:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so NASB, NRSV).

[62:11]  ⁵ sn As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord’s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.

[4:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will make your horn iron.”

[4:13]  ⁷ sn Jerusalem (Daughter Zion at the beginning of the verse; cf. 4:8) is here compared to a powerful ox which crushes the grain on the threshing floor with its hooves.

[4:13]  ⁸ tn Or “the Lord” (so many English versions); Heb “the master.”

[4:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “and their wealth to the master of all the earth.” The verb “devote” does double duty in the parallelism and is supplied in the second line for clarification.