Isa 47
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Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without
a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and
delicate.
2
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover
the leg, pass through the rivers.
3
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance,
and will spare no man.
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Our Redeemer, YHWH of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5
Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall
no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.
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I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into your hand:
you did show them no mercy; upon the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.
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And you said, I shall be mistress for ever; so that you did not lay these things to
your heart, neither did remember the latter end thereof.
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Now therefore hear this, you that art given to pleasures, that sit securely, that
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:
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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 upon you, in the multitude of
your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
10
For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None 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.
11
Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know its dawning: and mischief
shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come
upon you suddenly, which you know not.
12
Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein
you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you
may prevail.
13
You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers,
the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come
upon you.
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.
15
Thus shall the things be to you wherein you have labored: they that have trafficked
with you from your youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none
to save you.