¹⁶ For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
    all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and gulp down^[a]
    and shall be as though they had never been.^(A)

² For we were born by mere chance,
and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been,
for the breath in our nostrils is smoke,
and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our hearts;^(A)