⁴⁸ Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
    will shout^(A) for joy over Babylon,
for out of the north^(B)
    destroyers^(C) will attack her,”
declares the Lord.

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)

¹⁵ Joy is gone from our hearts;
    our dancing has turned to mourning.^(A)

⁷ Doom has come upon you,
    upon you who dwell in the land.
The time has come! The day^(A) is near!^(B)
    There is panic, not joy, on the mountains.

¹² The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(A)
the pomegranate,^(B) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(C)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

¹⁶ Has not the food been cut off^(A)
    before our very eyes—
joy and gladness^(B)
    from the house of our God?^(C)