³⁰ What are you doing,^(A) you devastated one?
    Why dress yourself in scarlet
    and put on jewels^(B) of gold?
Why highlight your eyes with makeup?^(C)
    You adorn yourself in vain.
Your lovers^(D) despise you;
    they want to kill you.^(E)

¹⁹ “I called to my allies^(A)
    but they betrayed me.
My priests and my elders
    perished^(B) in the city
while they searched for food
    to keep themselves alive.