Verse 21
21. The virgin the daughter of Zion Better, the virgin daughter Zion. Zion, the chief mountain on which the Jewish metropolis stood, is metaphorically represented as a virgin daughter, and thus becomes a personification of Jerusalem and its inhabitants. These are collectively called in the next line of the parallelism daughter of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is called a virgin, because yet unconquered and inviolate. Compare Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 47:1; Jeremiah 46:11; Lamentations 1:15.
Despised A very appropriate word to express the feelings of a virgin towards one who aims to destroy her honour.
Laughed thee to scorn As one conscious of impregnability.
Hath shaken her head at thee Literally, after thee the head she has shaken. Jerusalem shakes her head as a gesture of triumphant derision after Sennacherib, as after a smitten and flying foe.
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