Isaiah Chapter 47 Back Next{47:1} "Come down, and sit in the
dust, virgin daughter of
Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the
Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
{47:2} Take the millstones, and
grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
{47:3} Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man."
{47:4} Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of
Israel.
{47:5} "Sit in silence, and go into
darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
{47:6} I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke.
{47:7} You said, 'I shall be a mistress forever;' so that you did not lay these things to your
heart, nor did you remember the latter end of it.
{47:8} "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, 'I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:'
{47:9} but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your
enchantments.
{47:10} For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
{47:11} Therefore evil will come on you; you won't know when it dawns: and mischief will fall on you; you will not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know.
{47:12} "Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
{47:13} You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the
astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.
{47:14} Behold, they shall be as stubble; the
fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a
coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
{47:15} Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
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