Lamentations 2:15-17

New International Version

¹⁵All who pass your way
    clap their hands at you;^(A)
they scoff^(B) and shake their heads^(C)
    at Daughter Jerusalem:^(D)
“Is this the city that was called
    the perfection of beauty,^(E)
    the joy of the whole earth?”^(F)

¹⁶All your enemies open their mouths
    wide against you;^(G)
they scoff and gnash their teeth^(H)
    and say, “We have swallowed her up.^(I)
This is the day we have waited for;
    we have lived to see it.”^(J)

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

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Footnotes

Lamentations 2:17 Horn here symbolizes strength.

Micah 7:8-10

New International Version

Israel Will Rise

⁸Do not gloat over me,^(A) my enemy!
    Though I have fallen, I will rise.^(B)
Though I sit in darkness,
    the Lord will be my light.^(C)
⁹Because I have sinned against him,
    I will bear the Lord’s wrath,^(D)
until he pleads my case^(E)
    and upholds my cause.
He will bring me out into the light;^(F)
    I will see his righteousness.^(G)
¹⁰Then my enemy will see it
    and will be covered with shame,^(H)
she who said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”^(I)
My eyes will see her downfall;^(J)
    even now she will be trampled^(K) underfoot
    like mire in the streets.