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'For ever shall I be mistress';

So that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart,

Neither didst remember the end thereof.

 

⁸Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures,

That sittest securely,

That sayest in thy heart:

'I am, and there is none else beside me;

I shall not sit as a widow,

Neither shall I know the loss of children';

⁹But these two things shall come to thee in a moment

In one day, the loss of children, and widowhood;

In their full measure shall they come upon thee,

For the multitude of thy sorceries,

And the great abundance of thine enchantments.

 

¹⁰And thou hast been secure in thy wickedness,

Thou hast said: 'None seeth me';

Thy wisdom and thy knowledge,

It hath perverted thee;

And thou hast said in thy heart.

'I am, and there is none else beside me.'

¹¹Yet shall evil came upon thee;

Thou shalt not know how to charm it away;

And calamity shall fall upon thee;

Thou shalt not be able to put it away;

And ruin shall come upon thee suddenly,

Before thou knowest.

 

¹²Stand now with thine enchantments,

And with the multitude of thy sorceries,

Wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth;

If so be thou shalt be able to profit,

If so be thou mayest prevail.

¹³Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels;

Let now the astrologers, the stargazers,

The monthly prognosticators,

Stand up, and save thee

From the things that shall come upon thee.

¹⁴Behold, they shall be as stubble;

The fire shall burn them;

They shall not deliver themselves

From the power of the flame;

It shall not be a coal to warm at,

Nor a fire to sit before.

¹⁵Thus shall they be unto thee

With whom thou hast laboured;

They that have trafficked with thee from thy youth

Shall wander every one to his quarter;

There shall be none to save thee.

 

48Hear ye this, O house of Jacob,

Who are called by the name of Israel,

And are come forth out of the fountain of Judah;

Who swear by the name of the Lord,

And make mention of the God of Israel,

But not in truth, nor in righteousness.

²For they call themselves of the holy city,

And stay themselves upon the God of Israel,

The Lord of hosts is His name.

³I have declared the former things from of old;

Yea, they went forth out of My mouth, and I announced them;

Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

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