⁸ Now therefore hear this, ^(A)you lover of pleasures,
    ^(B)who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
    ^(C)“I am, and there is no one besides me;
^(D)I shall not sit as a widow
    or know the loss of children”:

²³ “‘Whom have you mocked and reviled?
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
    Against ^(A)the Holy One of Israel!
²⁴ By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
    and you have said, ^(B)With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
    to the far recesses of Lebanon,
^(C)to cut down its tallest cedars,
    its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
    its most fruitful forest.