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You said, “I shall be mistress forever,”
    so that you did not lay these things to heart
    or remember their end.(A)

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

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