⁴ “I have become a laughingstock^(A) to my friends,^(B)
    though I called on God and he answered^(C)—
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!^(D)

¹⁴ You have made us a byword^(A) among the nations;
    the peoples shake their heads^(B) at us.

²⁶ “Make her drunk,^(A)
    for she has defied^(B) the Lord.
Let Moab wallow in her vomit;^(C)
    let her be an object of ridicule.^(D)
27 Was not Israel the object of your ridicule?^(E)
    Was she caught among thieves,^(F)
that you shake your head^(G) in scorn^(H)
    whenever you speak of her?

³⁹ “How shattered^(A) she is! How they wail!
    How Moab turns her back in shame!
Moab has become an object of ridicule,^(B)
    an object of horror to all those around her.”

¹⁵ All who pass your way
    clap their hands at you;^(A)
they scoff^(B) and shake their heads^(C)
    at Daughter Jerusalem:^(D)
“Is this the city that was called
    the perfection of beauty,^(E)
    the joy of the whole earth?”^(F)

¹⁶ All your enemies open their mouths
    wide against you;^(G)
they scoff and gnash their teeth^(H)
    and say, “We have swallowed her up.^(I)
This is the day we have waited for;
    we have lived to see it.”^(J)

¹⁷ The Lord has done what he planned;
    he has fulfilled^(K) his word,
    which he decreed long ago.^(L)
He has overthrown you without pity,^(M)
    he has let the enemy gloat over you,^(N)
    he has exalted the horn^[a] of your foes.^(O)

¹⁴ I became the laughingstock^(A) of all my people;^(B)
    they mock me in song^(C) all day long.