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“And you said, ‘I shall be a lady forever’, so that you did not set your mind to these things, nor did you remember their end result.

“Hear now, therefore, you who are given to pleasures and dwells securely. She says in her heart, ‘I am and no one else. I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children.’

“But these two things shall come to you suddenly on one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their perfection, for the multitude of your divinations, and for the great abundance of your enchanters.

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