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

¹⁷ The Lord has done what he planned;
    he has fulfilled^(A) his word,
    which he decreed long ago.^(B)
He has overthrown you without pity,^(C)
    he has let the enemy gloat over you,^(D)
    he has exalted the horn^[a] of your foes.^(E)

⁴⁶ “All our enemies have opened their mouths
    wide^(A) against us.^(B)
47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls,^(C)
    ruin and destruction.^(D)”
⁴⁸ Streams of tears^(E) flow from my eyes^(F)
    because my people are destroyed.^(G)

⁴⁹ My eyes will flow unceasingly,
    without relief,^(H)
50 until the Lord looks down
    from heaven and sees.^(I)
51 What I see brings grief to my soul
    because of all the women of my city.