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8 And now, hear this, O luxurious one, dwelling in security, the one saying in her heart, ‘It is I and no one else! I will not sit as a widow, and I will not know bereavement.’ 9 And these two things will come to you in a moment, in a single day: Bereavement and widowhood. In full measure they will come upon you in the multitude of your sorceries, in the great abundance of you spells. 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; and you have said, ‘There is none seeing me!’ Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has turned you away, so that you have said in your heart, ‘It is I, and no one else!’ 11 And evil will come upon you, and you will not know its dawning; and disaster will fall upon you; you will not be able to wipe it away—and it will come upon you suddenly, devastation that you do not know! 12 Stand now with your spells, and with the multitude of your sorceries with which you have labored from your youth! Perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you will inspire terror! 13 You are wearied by the multitude of your counselors; let them stand up now and save you—those who divide up the heavens, and those gazing on the stars, declaring by month what will come upon you! 14 Behold, they have become like stubble, and the fire burns them up; they will not deliver their soul from the hand of the flame—there is not a coal to warm, nor fire to sit before it! 15 Thus they have become to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth! Each man in his direction, they go astray; none can save you. Isaiah 47:8-15, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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