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

¹⁸ Their bows will slaughter the young men;
    they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
    their eyes will not pity children.^(A)

⁴ Because of the countless debaucheries of the prostitute,
    gracefully alluring, mistress of sorcery,
who enslaves^[a] nations through her debaucheries
    and peoples through her sorcery,^(A)