The term translated as “glorified” is the same word the angels of heaven used in relation to the Lord God: “Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name?” (Revelation 15:4; see also Luke 2:14; Revelation 5:12–13). God alone is worthy of glory (a term that denotes weightiness, gravitas, majesty), and so it is rightly the desire of every creature to glorify the Lord (Isaiah 43:7). But the prostitute—a creature!—has claimed glory for herself, as if she had a rightful claim to the gravitas that belongs only to the eternal Creator. Herein she has displayed her selfishness (see Proverbs 27:2), and so set herself up for her fall (Luke 14:11).
7 As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.’