¹² now in the street, now in the squares,
    at every corner she lurks.)^(A)

¹⁴ She sits at the door of her house,
    on a seat at the highest point of the city,^(A)

²³ The light of a lamp
    will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
    will never be heard in you again.^(A)
Your merchants were the world’s important people.^(B)
    By your magic spell^(C) all the nations were led astray.

³ For all the nations have drunk
    the maddening wine of her adulteries.^(A)
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,^(B)
    and the merchants of the earth grew rich^(C) from her excessive luxuries.”^(D)

² “Look up to the barren heights^(A) and see.
    Is there any place where you have not been ravished?
By the roadside^(B) you sat waiting for lovers,
    sat like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land^(C)
    with your prostitution^(D) and wickedness.

³⁶ Why do you go about so much,
    changing^(A) your ways?
You will be disappointed by Egypt^(B)
    as you were by Assyria.