Lamentations 2:15-17

New International Version - UK

¹⁵ All who pass your way
    clap their hands at you;
they scoff and shake their heads
    at Daughter Jerusalem:
‘Is this the city that was called
    the perfection of beauty,
    the joy of the whole earth?’

¹⁶ All your enemies open their mouths
    wide against you;
they scoff and gnash their teeth
    and say, ‘We have swallowed her up.
This is the day we have waited for;
    we have lived to see it.’

¹⁷ The Lord has done what he planned;
    he has fulfilled his word,
    which he decreed long ago.
He has overthrown you without pity,
    he has let the enemy gloat over you,
    he has exalted the horn^[a] of your foes.