Verse 22
22. Transition to poetry: in parallelism.
virgin . . . daughter—honorable terms. "Virgin" implies that the city is, as yet, inviolate. "Daughter" is an abstract collective feminine personification of the population, the child of the place denoted (see on :-; Isaiah 1:8). Zion and her inhabitants.
shaken . . . head—in scorn (Psalms 22:7; Psalms 109:25; Matthew 27:39). With us to shake the head is a sign of denial or displeasure; but gestures have different meanings in different countries (Isaiah 58:9; Ezekiel 25:6; Zephaniah 2:15).
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