²⁷ Was not Israel the object of your ridicule?^(A)
    Was she caught among thieves,^(B)
that you shake your head^(C) in scorn^(D)
    whenever you speak of her?

²⁶ “As a thief is disgraced^(A) when he is caught,
    so the people of Israel are disgraced—
they, their kings and their officials,
    their priests^(B) and their prophets.^(C)

¹⁵ All 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)

¹⁶ All 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)

¹⁷ The 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)