(A)I was angry with my people;
    I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
    (B)you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
You said, “I shall be (C)mistress forever,”
    so that you did not lay these things to heart
    or remember their end.

Now therefore hear this, (D)you lover of pleasures,
    (E)who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
    (F)“I am, and there is no one besides me;
(G)I shall not sit as a widow
    or know the loss of children”:

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