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    But You were carried away with your power,
        thinking you would always be in charge.
    You didn’t consider your limits or think about how all this would end.
    You, pursuer of pleasure, resting in the thought,
        “No one exists in the world of any consequence except me.
    I’ll never feel as a widow or suffer the loss of my children.”
    Despite all your magic and charms, all of a sudden, in a single day,
        terror and death to the highest degree.
    In the midst of it all, your children and husband, too, will be gone.

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

“So now, hear this, you (D)sensual one,
Who (E)sits securely,
Who says in [b]your heart,
(F)I am, and there is no one besides me.
I will (G)not sit as a widow,
Nor know loss of children.’
But these (H)two things will come on you (I)suddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many (J)sorceries,
In spite of the great might of your spells.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:7 Lit it
  2. Isaiah 47:8 Lit her