And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. –Isaiah 1:8
The Holy Spirit could have given Isaiah a lot more violent, bloody imagery, but instead opted for a hut left all alone in a field of cucumbers. And somehow that’s an image that stays with you.
Isaiah’s prophecies came true for Jerusalem with the Babylonians took it and burned it to the ground.
They will be fulfilled again.
That is quite an evocative image. I don’t know if cucumber fields have some humble connotation that lends it to the illustration, but a humble shelter surrounded by a field of cucumbers does really stimulate the imagination.
It’s something that sticks in the mind’s eye.
Indeed.