⁵ Look at me and shudder;^(A)
put your hand over your mouth.^(B)

⁹ City officials stopped talking
and covered their mouths with their hands.^(A)

⁴ I am so insignificant. How can I answer you?^(A)
I place my hand over my mouth.

¹⁶ Nations will see and be ashamed
of^[a] all their power.
They will put their hands over their mouths,^(A)
and their ears will become deaf.