Now as for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I will (A)never be moved.”

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When I felt secure, I said,
    “I will never be shaken.”(A)

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And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

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Yet you said, ‘I will be a (A)queen forever.’
These things you did not (B)consider
Nor remember the (C)outcome of [a]them.

“Now, then, hear this, you (D)luxuriant one,
Who (E)lives securely,
Who says in her heart,
(F)I am, and there is no one besides me.
I will (G)not sit as a widow,
Nor know the loss of children.’

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:7 Lit it

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)

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

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And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

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