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Jerusalem will defeat her enemies.
Let her be defiled
This can be translated in active form. AT: "Let us defile her" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)
let our eyes gloat over Zion
The eye is a synecdoche for the whole person. AT: "let us gloat over Zion" or "let us enjoy watching the invaders destroy Zion" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)
for he has gathered them like bundles of grain prepared for the threshing floor
The writer speaks of Yahweh being ready to destroy the nations as if Yahweh were a farmer who has put his bundles of grain on his threshing floor and is now ready to thresh them. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)