Isaiah 37:22 meaning and explanation
this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
Isaiah 37:22, Berean Standard Bible
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These words come through the prophet Isaiah to King Hezekiah, answering the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose army threatens Jerusalem. "Daughter of Zion" is a Hebrew poetic way of speaking of the city and its people as a woman, here called a virgin because she has not yet been conquered.
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