¹⁴ “I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.^{(A) 15} You will be a reproach^(B) and a taunt, a warning^(C) and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke.^(D) I the Lord have spoken.^(E)

⁵⁷ before your wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now scorned^(A) by the daughters of Edom^[a](B) and all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines—all those around you who despise you.

⁴ you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed^(A) and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come.^(B) Therefore I will make you an object of scorn^(C) to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.^{(D) 5} Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.^(E)