Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 1:8

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodg in a garden of cucumbers , as a besieged city.

i. e. Zion, or Ierusalem; 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 it self, Psal. 137. 8. Isa. 47. 1. In the same sence we read of the daughter of Tyre, Psal. 45. 12. and of Zidon, Isa. 23. 12. and of Egypt, Ier. 46. 11, 24. and of Edom, Lam. 4. 21.

Is left solitary, all the neighbouring villages and country round about it being laid waste.