⁴ I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.^(A)

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of the Lord,^(A) you scoffers^(B)
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
¹⁵ For you said, “We have made a covenant with Death,
and we have an agreement with Sheol;
when the overwhelming catastrophe^[a] passes through,^(C)
it will not touch us,
because we have made falsehood our refuge
and have hidden behind treachery.”