מָשׂוֹשׂ

Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

…and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.

For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,

I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.