The Book of Isaiah (WEB)
47: 1Come 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. 47:2Take the
millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the
rivers. 47:3Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance,
and will spare no man. 47:4Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
47:5Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be
called The mistress of kingdoms. 47:6I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and
gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid
your yoke. 47:7You 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. 47:8Now 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: 47:9but 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.
47:10For 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. 47:11Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning of it: and
mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you
suddenly, which you don't know. 47:12Stand 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. 47:13You 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 on you. 47:14Behold, 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. 47:15Thus 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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