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I was angry with my people.
I defiled my heritage.
I gave them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy.
Even on the aged you made your yoke very heavy.
You said, “I will be a lady forever.”
You did not take these things to heart.
You did not remember how this will turn out.
But now hear this, you wanton lover of pleasure,
who sits securely,
who says in her heart,
“I am the one, and there is no one except me.
I will not live as a widow.
I will not experience the loss of children.”

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I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

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(A)I was angry with my people;
    I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
    (B)you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
You said, “I shall be (C)mistress forever,”
    so that you did not lay these things to heart
    or remember their end.

Now therefore hear this, (D)you lover of pleasures,
    (E)who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
    (F)“I am, and there is no one besides me;
(G)I shall not sit as a widow
    or know the loss of children”:

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