⁸ Their own tongues will ruin them,
    and all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.

⁷ The mouths of fools are their ruin;
    they trap themselves with their lips.

¹³ The wicked are trapped by their own words,
    but the godly escape such trouble.

⁷ All who see you will shrink back and say,
    ‘Nineveh lies in ruins.
Where are the mourners?’
    Does anyone regret your destruction?”

²⁷ Did you not ridicule the people of Israel?
    Were they caught in the company of thieves
    that you should despise them as you do?

¹⁶ Therefore, their land will become desolate,
    a monument to their stupidity.
All who pass by will be astonished
    and will shake their heads in amazement.

⁹ Let my enemies be destroyed
    by the very evil they have planned for me.

¹¹ I am scorned by all my enemies
    and despised by my neighbors—
    even my friends are afraid to come near me.
When they see me on the street,
    they run the other way.