Jeremiah 8:21

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am. hurt.

A favorite symbol of. city in the prophets is. woman. The spiritual Babylon appears as. harlot; the New Jerusalem as the Bride of the Lamb; and Jerusalem is often described as "the daughter of my people." Here under this figure Jeremiah describes the carnage that shall desolate Jerusalem and his own suffering on account of her sufferings. He could see in his vision the near approach of the calamities that would ruin his country and he felt the hurt as his own. The reader must remember that Jeremiah was not predicting the distant future but events only separated by. few years.