"But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples.

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became for them a byword.

And was not Sodom, your sister, a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride

Therefore prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{Because indeed} {when you were desolate}, then they crushed you from all around, so that you became a possession to the remainder of the nations, and you became {a byword and object of slander for the people}."

Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, "Take pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among [the] nations. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where [is] their God?'"