Isaiah 47:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶I was angry with my people,
    I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand,
    you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke
    exceedingly heavy.
⁷You said, ‘I shall be mistress for ever’,
    so that you did not lay these things to heart
    or remember their end.

⁸Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures,
    who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
    ‘I am, and there is no one besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow
    or know the loss of children’—

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