“This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.”
This is the exultant city that dwelt secure, that said in her heart, 'I am, and there is no one else.' What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist—the taunt celebrates Nineveh's complete reversal. Her self-deification ('I am, and there is no one else') receives cosmic answer through absolute humiliation. The public contempt (hissing and shaking fists) completes the reversal of fortune.
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