Lamentations 2:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ All your enemies mock you and glare at you with hate.
    They curl their lips and sneer, “We have destroyed it!
    This is the day we have waited for!”

¹⁷ The Lord has finally done what he threatened to do:
    He has destroyed us without mercy, as he warned us long ago.
    He gave our enemies victory, gave them joy at our downfall.

¹⁸ O Jerusalem, let your very walls cry out to the Lord!^[a]
    Let your tears flow like rivers night and day;
    Wear yourself out with weeping and grief