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Your arrogant heart has deceived you,(A)
you who live in clefts of the rock[a],[b],(B)
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
‘Who can bring me down to the ground? ’(C)
Though you seem to soar[c] like an eagle(D)
and make your nest among the stars,(E)
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

If thieves came to you,(F)
if marauders by night –
how ravaged you would be! –
wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?
If grape harvesters came to you,
wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 3 Or in Sela; probably = Petra
  2. 3 Probably Petra
  3. 4 Or to build high