(A)I was angry with My people;
(B)I have profaned My inheritance,
And given them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy;
(C)On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.
And you said, ‘I shall be (D)a lady forever,’
So that you did not (E)take these things to heart,
(F)Nor remember the latter end of them.

“Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,
Who dwell securely,
Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
Nor shall I know the loss of children’;

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