“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:”
The prophetic exposure 'You did not lay these things to heart, you did not remember their end' accuses Babylon of failure in wisdom—refusing to contemplate mortality and judgment. This verse invokes the wisdom tradition that all power is temporary and all kingdoms pass. Babylon's blindness to inevitable decline parallels Israel's foolishness in earlier chapters, suggesting that rejection of prophetic warning is universal human temptation. The phrase 'did not remember their end' evokes memento mori theology.
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