“These people^(A) come near to me with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,^(B)
    but their hearts are far from me.^(C)
Their worship of me
    is based on merely human rules they have been taught.^[a](D)

⁷ You said, ‘I am forever^(A)—
    the eternal queen!’^(B)
But you did not consider these things
    or reflect^(C) on what might happen.^(D)

57 The righteous perish,^(A)
    and no one takes it to heart;^(B)
the devout are taken away,
    and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
    to be spared from evil.^(C)

¹¹ “Whom have you so dreaded and feared^(A)
    that you have not been true to me,
and have neither remembered^(B) me
    nor taken this to heart?^(C)
Is it not because I have long been silent^(D)
    that you do not fear me?

⁹ Foreigners sap his strength,^(A)
    but he does not realize it.
His hair is sprinkled with gray,
    but he does not notice.