I was wroth with my people: I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand, thou didst show them no [a]mercy, but thou didst lay thy very heavy yoke upon the ancient.

And thou saidest, I shall be a lady forever, so that thou didst not set thy mind to these things, neither didst thou remember the latter end thereof.

Therefore now hear, thou that art given to pleasures, and dwellest careless, She saith in her heart, I am and none else: I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall know the loss of children.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:6 They abused God’s judgments, thinking that he punished the Israelites, because he would utterly cast them off, and therefore instead of pitying their misery, thou didst increase it.

I was angry(A) with my people
    and desecrated my inheritance;(B)
I gave them into your hand,(C)
    and you showed them no mercy.(D)
Even on the aged
    you laid a very heavy yoke.
You said, ‘I am forever(E)
    the eternal queen!’(F)
But you did not consider these things
    or reflect(G) on what might happen.(H)

“Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure,
    lounging in your security(I)
and saying to yourself,
    ‘I am, and there is none besides me.(J)
I will never be a widow(K)
    or suffer the loss of children.’

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