¹⁵ “And it must occur that if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God by taking care to do all his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you today, all these maledictions must also come upon you and overtake you:+

 ⁴ We have become a reproach to our neighbors,+

A derision and a jeering to those round about us.+

 ³ For there those holding us captive asked us for the words of a song,+

And those mocking* us—for rejoicing:+

“SING for us one of the songs of Zion.”+

²⁴ and they will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations;+ and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations,* until the appointed times+ of the nations are fulfilled.*