⁷ You said, “I shall be ^(A)mistress for ever”,
    so that you did not lay these things to heart
    or remember their end.
⁸ Now therefore hear this, ^(B)you lover of pleasures,
    ^(C)who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
    ^(D)“I am, and there is no one besides me;
^(E)I shall not sit as a widow
    or know the loss of children”:

¹⁵ This is the exultant city
    ^(A)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
    “I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
    ^(B)a lair for wild beasts!
^(C)Everyone who passes by her
    hisses and ^(D)shakes his fist.