Isaiah 47:8

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Summary

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:

Given

I shall not

Revelation 18:7

General references

Jeremiah 51:24

Zechariah 1:15

James 4:16

Bible References

Given

My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear.

And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.

Up, ye rich and idle women, hearken unto my voice. Ye careless cities, mark my words.

Then the five men departed and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, and after the manner of the Sidonians: still, and without casting of perils, and that no man made any trouble in the land or usurped any dominion, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no business with any nation.

Because ye were so cheerful and glad, to tread down mine heritage, and fulfill your pleasures, as the calves in the grass: And triumphed over them like the bulls, when ye had gotten the victory.

King Belshazzar made a great banquet to his thousand lords: with all these thousand he made great cheer,

This is the proud and careless city, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is else none." O how is she made so waste, that the beasts lie therein? Whoso goeth by, mocketh her, and pointeth at her with his finger.

for all nations have drunken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and her merchants are waxed rich of the abundance of her pleasures."

I shall not

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above, out of his sight. Therefore defieth he all his enemies.

For like as the thorns that stick together, and as the dry straw, so shall the drunkards be consumed together, even when they be full.

And he said, 'This will I do. I will destroy my barns, and build greater: and therein will I gather all my fruits, and my goods:

They ate, they drank, they married wives and were married even unto the same day that Noah went into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

And as much as she glorified herself and lived wantonly, so much pour ye in for her of punishment, and sorrow, for she said in her heart, 'I sit, being a queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow.'

General references

Therefore will I reward the city of Babylon and all her citizens the Chaldeans, with all the evil which they have done unto Zion. Yea, that ye yourselves shall see it, sayeth the LORD.

and sore displeased at the careless Heathen: for whereas I was but a little angry, they did their best that I might destroy them.

But now ye rejoice in your boastings. All such rejoicing is evil.