Lamentations 2:16-18
Good News Translation
16 All your enemies mock you and glare at you with hate.
They curl their lips and sneer, “We have destroyed it!
This is the day we have waited for!”
17 The Lord has finally done what he threatened to do:
He has destroyed us without mercy, as he warned us long ago.
He gave our enemies victory, gave them joy at our downfall.
18 O Jerusalem, let your very walls cry out to the Lord![a]
Let your tears flow like rivers night and day;
Wear yourself out with weeping and grief
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:18 Probable text O Jerusalem … Lord; Hebrew Their hearts cried out to the Lord, O wall of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 2:16-18
New International Version
16 All your enemies open their mouths
wide against you;(A)
they scoff and gnash their teeth(B)
and say, “We have swallowed her up.(C)
This is the day we have waited for;
we have lived to see it.”(D)
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:17 Horn here symbolizes strength.
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