And you said, ‘I shall be a lady forever,’ So that you did not take these things to heart, Nor remember the latter end of them.
Parallel translations
- WEB You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
- KJV 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.
- BSB You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
- NASB “Yet you said, ‘I will be a queen forever.’ These things you did not consider Nor remember the outcome of them.
- NLT You said, ‘I will reign forever as queen of the world!’ You did not reflect on your actions or think about their consequences.
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Quick answer
Babylon presumed she would reign forever and never considered the consequences. Pride blinds people to coming judgment.
Overview
The city imagined her dominion eternal — 'I will be a princess forever' — and so never reckoned with the end of her ways. Her fatal flaw was self-secure presumption. Scripture consistently warns that those who say 'I will never be moved' are ripe for a fall, in contrast to humble dependence on God.
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- Deut 32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- Isa 47:5“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.
- Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
- Dan 4:29At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
- Dan 5:18–23You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
- Ezek 29:3Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’
- Ezek 7:3–9Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
- Ezek 28:2Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —
- Ezek 28:12–14Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
- Isa 42:25Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know; and it burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
- Isa 46:8–9“Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.
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