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“So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.”

“In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.”

“You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.”

“For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.””

“You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.”

“You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.”

“Why do you boast of your valleys— your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’”

“The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.”