Is this your (A)joyous city,
Whose antiquity is from ancient days,
Whose feet carried her far off to dwell?

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Is this your city of revelry,(A)
    the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
    to settle in far-off lands?

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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

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)

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