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47.7 :'For ever shall I be mistress';
 * So that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart,
 * Neither didst remember the end thereof.


 * Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures,
 * That sittest securely,
 * That sayest in thy heart:
 * 'I am, and there is none else beside me;
 * I shall not sit as a widow,
 * Neither shall I know the loss of children';
 * But these two things shall come to thee in a moment
 * In one day, the loss of children, and widowhood;
 * In their full measure shall they come upon thee,
 * For the multitude of thy sorceries,
 * And the great abundance of thine enchantments.


 * And thou hast been secure in thy wickedness,
 * Thou hast said: 'None seeth me';
 * Thy wisdom and thy knowledge,
 * It hath perverted thee;
 * And thou hast said in thy heart.
 * 'I am, and there is none else beside me.'
 * Yet shall evil came upon thee;
 * Thou shalt not know how to charm it away;
 * And calamity shall fall upon thee;
 * Thou shalt not be able to put it away;
 * And ruin shall come upon thee suddenly,
 * Before thou knowest.


 * Stand now with thine enchantments,
 * And with the multitude of thy sorceries,
 * Wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth;
 * If so be thou shalt be able to profit,
 * If so be thou mayest prevail.
 * Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels;
 * Let now the astrologers, the stargazers,
 * The monthly prognosticators,
 * Stand up, and save thee
 * From the things that shall come upon thee.
 * Behold, they shall be as stubble;
 * The fire shall burn them;
 * They shall not deliver themselves
 * From the power of the flame;
 * It shall not be a coal to warm at,
 * Nor a fire to sit before.
 * Thus shall they be unto thee
 * With whom thou hast laboured;
 * They that have trafficked with thee from thy youth
 * Shall wander every one to his quarter;
 * There shall be none to save thee.


 * Hear ye this, O house of Jacob,
 * Who are called by the name of Israel,
 * And are come forth out of the fountain of Judah;
 * Who swear by the name of the ,
 * And make mention of the God of Israel,
 * But not in truth, nor in righteousness.
 * For they call themselves of the holy city,
 * And stay themselves upon the God of Israel,
 * The of hosts is His name.
 * I have declared the former things from of old;
 * Yea, they went forth out of My mouth, and I announced them;
 * Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.