translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JER

label: NET study note

text: There is some irony involved in the choice of the simile since the men guarding a field were there to keep thieves from getting in and stealing the crops. Here the besiegers are guarding the city to keep people from getting out.


text: The earth and the heavens are personified here and depicted in the act of mourning and wearing black clothes because of the destruction of the land of Israel.


text: Jerusalem is personified as a helpless maiden.