So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’
This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin sh
Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yours
All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and
“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treadi
so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is
For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He d
you, O king, are that tree! For you have become great and strong; your greatness has grown to reach the sky, and your do
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as yo
Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up a
That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my po
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and they stru
So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, qui
“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will
For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,”
Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous thin
He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple o
My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.
and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death,
He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the floo