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Lamentations 2:15

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2:15All who passed by on the road

clapped their hands to mock you.77

They sneered and shook their heads

at Daughter Jerusalem.

“Ha! Is this the city they called78

‘The perfection of beauty,79

the source of joy of the whole earth!’?”80

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Footnotes

  1. 77 Heb “clap their hands at you.” Clapping hands at someone was an expression of malicious glee, derision and mockery (Num 24:10; Job 27:23; Lam 2:15).
  2. 78 Heb “of which they said.”
  3. 79 Heb “perfection of beauty.” The noun יֹפִי (yofi, “beauty”) functions as a genitive of respect in relation to the preceding construct noun: Jerusalem was perfect in respect to its physical beauty.
  4. 80 Heb “the joy of all the earth.” This is similar to statements found in Pss 48:2 and 50:2.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

All who pass along the way

clap their hands at you;

they hiss and wag their heads

at the daughter of Jerusalem:

“Is this the city that was called

the perfection of beauty,

the joy of all the earth?”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

All who pass your way

clap their hands at you;

they scoff and shake their heads

at Daughter Jerusalem:

“Is this the city that was called

the perfection of beauty,

the joy of the whole earth?”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

All who pass by

scornfully clap their hands at you.

They hiss and shake their heads

at Daughter Jerusalem:

Is this the city that was called

the perfection of beauty,

the joy of the whole earth?

NLTNew Living Translation

All who pass by jeer at you.

They scoff and insult beautiful Jerusalem, saying,

“Is this the city called ‘Most Beautiful in All the World’

and ‘Joy of All the Earth’?”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They clap hands over you,

all who pass along the way;

they hiss and they shake their head,

at the daughter of Jerusalem.

Is this the city of which it is said,

“A perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?”

KJV 1900King James Version

All that pass by clap their hands at thee;

They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,

Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?