I was a laughing stock to all my people; their taunting song all the day.

All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which is called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?

they have wandered as blind men in the streets; they are defiled with blood, so that no one could touch their clothes.

They cried out to them, Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart! Do not touch us! When they fled and wandered, they said among the nations, They will not continue to live there.

And Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today, and take heed to do them.

And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the nations where Jehovah shall drive you.

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

being defamed, we entreat. We have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.