Isaiah 47:6-8

Easy-to-Read Version

⁶ “I was angry with my people.
    They were mine, but I turned against them.
I let you punish them,
    but you showed them no mercy.
Even for those who were old
    you made the work hard.
⁷ You said, ‘I will live forever.
    I will always be the queen.’
You didn’t care what you did to my people.
    You didn’t think about what might happen later.
⁸ So now listen, you who love only pleasure!
    Feeling so safe, you tell yourself,
‘I alone am important, and no one else matters.
    I will never be a widow or lose my children.’