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    And you said, “I shall be an eternal mistress forever!”
You did not set these things upon your heart;
    you did not remember its end.
Therefore now hear this, luxuriant one who sits[a] in security,
    who says[b] in her heart, “I am, and besides me there is no one.
I shall not sit as a widow,
    and I shall not know the loss of children.”
And these two shall come to you in a moment, in one day:
    the loss of children and widowhood shall come on you completely,[c]
in spite of your many sorceries,
    in spite of the power of your great enchantments.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:8 Or “sitting”
  2. Isaiah 47:8 Or “saying”
  3. Isaiah 47:9 Literally “as their fullness”