“Surely the great houses will become desolate,^(C)
    the fine mansions left without occupants.

¹⁶ Their infants^(A) will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
    their houses will be looted and their wives violated.^(B)

²¹ But desert creatures^(A) will lie there,
    jackals^(B) will fill her houses;
there the owls^(C) will dwell,
    and there the wild goats^(D) will leap about.

²² Hyenas^(A) will inhabit her strongholds,^(B)
    jackals^(C) her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,^(D)
    and her days will not be prolonged.^(E)