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“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,
    who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
    ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.
I won’t sit as a widow,
    neither will I know the loss of children.’
But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day,
    the loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in their full measure,
    in the multitude of your sorceries,
    and the great abundance of your enchantments.
10 For you have trusted in your wickedness.
    You have said, ‘No one sees me.’
Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you.
    You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
11 Therefore disaster will come on you.
    You won’t know when it dawns.
Mischief will fall on you.
    You won’t be able to put it away.
Desolation will come on you suddenly,
    which you don’t understand.

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“Now hear this, you wanton creature,
    lounging with no cares,
and saying to herself:
    ‘I am the one, and there will be none besides me;
I won’t live as a widow,
    nor will I see[a] the loss of children.’
Both of these things will overtake you
    suddenly on a single day:
loss of children and widowhood.
    They will come upon you in full measure,
despite the multitude of your incantations
    and the great power of your spells.”

Self-Deception of the Babylonians

10 “You trusted in your own knowledge.[b]
    You said, ‘No one sees me.’
Your wisdom and knowledge have misled you.
    You said in your heart,
        ‘I am the one, and there will be none besides me.’

11 “But disaster will come[c] upon you,
    and[d] you will not know how to charm it away.
A calamity will befall you
    that you will not be able to[e] ward off;
and devastation will come upon you suddenly,
    and[f] you won’t anticipate it.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:8 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsad MT LXX read know
  2. Isaiah 47:10 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read evil
  3. Isaiah 47:11 So 1QIsaa (feminine); MT (masculine [incorrectly])
  4. Isaiah 47:11 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks and
  5. Isaiah 47:11 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks to
  6. Isaiah 47:11 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks and