The daughter of Zion, i.e. Zion, or Jerusalem; for these two names are promiscuously used of the same place; the name of daughter being frequently given to cities or countries. Thus the daughter of Babylon is put for Babylon itself, Psa_137:8Isa_47:1. In the same sense we read of the daughter of Tyre, Psa_45:12, and of Zidon, Isa_23:12, and of Egypt, Jer_46:11,24, and of Edom, Lam_4:21.
Is left as a cottage in a vineyard as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers; is left solitary, all the neighbouring villages and country round about it being laid waste.