²² In full sufficiency they will be in distress;
    all the force of misery will come upon them.

⁷ As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
    so give her a like measure of torment and grief.
Since in her heart she says,
    ‘I rule as a queen;
I am no widow,
    and I will never see grief,’^(A)

⁶ Against a godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
    and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.^(A)

⁵ You have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight.
Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah^(A)

⁷ Their strong steps are shortened,
    and their own schemes throw them down.^(A)

¹¹ God gives me up to the evil
    and casts me into the hands of the wicked.^(A)

²⁹ they will not be rich, and their wealth will not endure,
    nor will they strike root in the earth;^[a](A)

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling,
    and there the weary are at rest.^(A)