People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror.
This House, now so exalted—everyone passing by it will gasp in shock and hiss, saying: ‘Why has Adonai done thus to this land and to this House?’
But He drags off the mighty by His power; He raises up, yet no one has assurance of life.
Remember, Adonai, the children of Edom, what they said on the day Jerusalem fell: “Strip her, strip her to her very foundation!”
The Lord laughs at him— for He sees his day is coming.
Their land will become a horror, a perpetual hissing— every one passing by will be stunned and shake his head.
To the sword with all her bulls, going down to the slaughter! Oy to them! Their day has come— the time of their visitation.
You are to mark out a way, so the sword can come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon and to Judah in fortified Jerusalem.
saying, “If only you had recognized this day the things that lead to shalom! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
And they will smash you to the ground—you and your children within you. And they won’t leave within you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”