New Revised Standard Version
They have closed in around her like watchers of a field, because she has rebelled against me, says the LORD.

New American Bible
Like watchers in the fields they surround her, for she has rebelled against me—oracle of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.

They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.

keepers.

Jeremiah 6:2,3 I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman. . . .

2 Kings 25:1-4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it. . . .

Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.

Luke 19:43,44 For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side, . . .

Luke 21:29-24 And he spoke to them a similitude. See the fig tree and all the trees: . . .

because.

Jeremiah 5:23 But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

Nehemiah 9:26,30 But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies. . . .

Isaiah 1:20-23 But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. . . .

Isaiah 30:9 For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children that will not hear the law of God.

Lamentations 1:8,18 Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they have seen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward. . . .

Ezekiel 2:3-7 And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant even unto this day. . . .

Daniel 9:7 To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee.