And as for (A)this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, (B)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

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15 All who [a]pass by (A)clap their hands at you;
They hiss (B)and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
Is this the city that is called
(C)‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth’?”

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:15 Lit. pass by this way

16 For the statutes of (A)Omri are (B)kept;
All the works of Ahab’s house are done;
And you walk in their counsels,
That I may make you a [a]desolation,
And your inhabitants a hissing.
Therefore you shall bear the (C)reproach of [b]My people.”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:16 Or object of horror
  2. Micah 6:16 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX nations

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