⁹ For Samaria’s plague^(A) is incurable;^(B)
    it has spread to Judah.^(C)
It has reached the very gate^(D) of my people,
    even to Jerusalem itself.

¹⁵ This is the city of revelry^(A)
    that lived in safety.^(B)
She said to herself,
    “I am the one! And there is none besides me.”^(C)
What a ruin she has become,
    a lair for wild beasts!^(D)
All who pass by her scoff^(E)
    and shake their fists.^(F)