⁴ If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.

⁷ Everyone who sees me mocks me;
they sneer^[a] and shake their heads:^(A)

²⁵ I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;^[a]
when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.^(A)

¹⁶ They have made their land a horror,^(A)
a perpetual object of scorn;^[a](B)
all who pass by it will be appalled^(C)
and shake their heads.^(D)

¹⁵ All who pass by
scornfully clap their hands^(A) at you.
They hiss^(B) and shake their heads^(C)
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,^(D)
the joy of the whole earth?^(E)