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You said, ‘I will always continue—Queen forever!’
    You didn’t take these things into your thinking,
        nor did you think about their consequences.[a]

“Now hear this, you wanton creature,
    lounging with no cares,
and saying to herself:
    ‘I am the one, and there will be none besides me;
I won’t live as a widow,
    nor will I see[b] the loss of children.’
Both of these things will overtake you
    suddenly on a single day:
loss of children and widowhood.
    They will come upon you in full measure,
despite the multitude of your incantations
    and the great power of your spells.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:7 1QIsaa and MT use alternate forms; LXX reads the last things
  2. Isaiah 47:8 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsad MT LXX read know