translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ZEP

label: NET study note

text: Applied to prophets, the word פֹּחֲזִים ( pokhazim , “proud”) probably refers to their audacity in passing off their own words as genuine prophecies from the Lord (see Jer 23:32 ).


text: The second person verbs and pronouns are feminine singular, indicating that personified Jerusalem is addressed here.


text: This phrase is used as an epithet for the city and the nation. “Daughter” may seem extraneous in English but consciously joins the various epithets and metaphors of Israel and Jerusalem as a woman, a device used to evoke sympathy from the reader.