15 All who pass along the way
    clap their hands at you;
(A)they hiss and wag their heads
    at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
    (B)the perfection of beauty,
    (C)the joy of all the earth?”

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(A)beautiful in elevation,
    is (B)the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
    (C)the city of the great King.

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For thus says the Lord God: Because (A)you have clapped your hands (B)and stamped your feet and (C)rejoiced with all the (D)malice within your soul against the land of Israel,

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And I will make this city (A)a horror, (B)a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.

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Out of Zion, (A)the perfection of beauty,
    (B)God shines forth.

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15 This is the exultant city
    (A)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
    “I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
    (B)a lair for wild beasts!
(C)Everyone who passes by her
    hisses and (D)shakes his fist.

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22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“‘She despises you, she scorns you—
    (A)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
    the daughter of Jerusalem.

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29 And (A)those who passed by derided him, (B)wagging their heads and saying, (C)“Aha! (D)You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

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19 There is no easing your hurt;
    (A)your wound is grievous.
All who hear the news about you
    (B)clap their hands over you.
For (C)upon whom has not come
    your unceasing evil?

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16 For you have kept the statutes of (A)Omri,[a]
    and all the works of the house of (B)Ahab;
    and you have walked in their counsels,
that I may make you (C)a desolation, and your[b] inhabitants (D)a hissing;
    so you shall bear (E)the scorn of my people.”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:16 Hebrew For the statutes of Omri are kept
  2. Micah 6:16 Hebrew its

16 (A)All your enemies
    rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
    they cry: “We (B)have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
    now we have it; (C)we see it!”

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He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
    laid in ruins (A)his meeting place;
(B)the Lord has made Zion forget
    festival and (C)Sabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

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(A)Jerusalem sinned grievously;
    therefore she became filthy;
all who honored her despise her,
    (B)for they have seen her nakedness;
she herself (C)groans
    and turns her face away.

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37 and Babylon shall become (A)a heap of ruins,
    (B)the haunt of jackals,
(C)a horror (D)and a hissing,
    without inhabitant.

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18 I will pursue them with (A)sword, famine, and pestilence, (B)and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, (C)to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations (D)where I have driven them,

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18 (A)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, (B)to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;

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(A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

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11 (A)Our holy and beautiful[a] house,
    where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
    and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:11 Or holy and glorious

14 You have made us (A)a byword among the nations,
    (B)a laughingstock[a] among the peoples.
15 All day long my disgrace is before me,
    and (C)shame has covered my face

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44:14 Hebrew a shaking of the head

22 It[a] hurls at him (A)without pity;
    he flees from its[b] power in headlong flight.
23 It (B)claps its hands at him
    and (C)hisses at him from its place.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 27:22 Or He (that is, God); also verse 23
  2. Job 27:22 Or his; also verse 23

21 And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, (A)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

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21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“She despises you, she scorns you—
    (A)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she (B)wags her head behind you—
    the daughter of Jerusalem.

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