so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

“Tell us, you idols, what is going to happen. Tell us what the former things were, so that we may consider them and know their final outcome. Or declare to us the things to come,

You said, ‘I am forever— the eternal queen!’ But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.

Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.

“Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.