⁷ You said, “I shall be ^(A)mistress forever,”
    so that you did not lay these things to heart
    or remember their end.

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.