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Isaiah 47

¹Come 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. ²Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. ³Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man. ⁴Our Redeemer, YHWH of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. ⁵Sit you silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms. ⁶I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast you very heavily laid your yoke. ⁷And you saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that you didst not lay these things to your heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof. ⁸Now therefore hear this, you that are given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest 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: ⁹but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon thee, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments. ¹⁰For you hast trusted in your wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and you hast said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me. ¹¹Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shall not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which you knowest not. ¹²Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you mayest prevail. ¹³Thou are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee. ¹⁴Behold, 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. ¹⁵Thus shall the things be unto thee wherein you hast labored: they that have trafficked with thee from your youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to save thee.

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