⁸ “Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure,
    lounging in your security^(A)
and saying to yourself,
    ‘I am, and there is none besides me.^(B)
I will never be a widow^(C)
    or suffer the loss of children.’

³ For all the nations have drunk
    the maddening wine of her adulteries.^(A)
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,^(B)
    and the merchants of the earth grew rich^(C) from her excessive luxuries.”^(D)

“‘Come out of her, my people,’^[a](E)
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues;^(F)
5 for her sins are piled up to heaven,^(G)
    and God has remembered^(H) her crimes.
⁶ Give back to her as she has given;
    pay her back^(I) double^(J) for what she has done.
    Pour her a double portion from her own cup.^(K)
7 Give her as much torment and grief
    as the glory and luxury she gave herself.^(L)
In her heart she boasts,
    ‘I sit enthroned as queen.
I am not a widow;^[b]
    I will never mourn.’^(M)
8 Therefore in one day^(N) her plagues will overtake her:
    death, mourning and famine.
She will be consumed by fire,^(O)
    for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.

¹¹ “Because you rejoice and are glad,
    you who pillage my inheritance,^(A)
because you frolic like a heifer^(B) threshing grain
    and neigh like stallions,

¹⁰ You have trusted^(A) in your wickedness
    and have said, ‘No one sees me.’^(B)
Your wisdom^(C) and knowledge mislead^(D) you
    when you say to yourself,
    ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

⁶ so that from the rising of the sun
    to the place of its setting^(A)
people may know^(B) there is none besides me.^(C)
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.