I became a laughing stock to all my people; and their song all the day.

SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?

NUN. Her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their clothing with it.

SAMECH. Depart from the unclean ones; call them: depart, depart, touch [them] not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger. Say among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [there].

The Lord your God shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall then be above and you shall not be below, if you will hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, in all things that I command you this day to observe.

And there shall you be a wonder and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord your God shall carry you away.

He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

being defamed, we encourage; we have become as the sweepings of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.