⁶ As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

¹⁸ Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

¹⁹ My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch;

²⁰ My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.'

¹⁹ I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

¹² Come you, [say they], I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.

⁷ You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.

¹¹⁷ Hold me up, and I will be safe, And will have respect for your statutes continually.

⁸ I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

⁵ He who doesn't lend out his money for usury, Nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

⁶ He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken; For generations I shall have no trouble."

⁷ By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted excessively.