Isaiah 47:8

So now, listen to this, O one who lives so lavishly, ¹  who lives securely, who says to herself, ²  ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! ³  I will never have to live as a widow; I will never lose my children.’ ⁴ 

Jud 18:7,27; Ps 10:5,6; Isa 21:4,5; Isa 22:12,13; Isa 32:9; Isa 47:10; Jer 50:11; Jer 50:31,32; Jer 51:53; Da 4:22,30; Da 5:1-4,30; Da 5:23; Da 11:36; Na 1:10; Hab 2:5-8; Zep 2:15; Lu 12:18-20; Lu 17:27-29; 2Th 2:4; Re 18:3-8; Re 18:7

¹ tn Or perhaps, “voluptuous one” (NAB); NAB “you sensual one”; NLT “You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom.”

² tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

³ tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.” See Zeph 2:15.

⁴ tn Heb “I will not live [as] a widow, and I will not know loss of children.”