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You said, “I shall be a queen forever,”
    but you did not take these things to heart,
    nor remember the outcome of them.

Therefore, now hear this, you who are given to pleasures,
    who dwell carelessly,
who say in your heart,
    “I am, and there is no one besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
    nor shall I know the loss of children”;
but these two things shall come to you
    in a moment, in one day,
    the loss of children and widowhood.
They shall come upon you in their fullness
    because of the multitude of your sorceries
    and for the great abundance of your enchantments.

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