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href="../isaiah/46.htm" title="Isaiah 46">◄</a> Isaiah 47 <a href="../isaiah/48.htm" title="Isaiah 48">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/47.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Humiliation of Babylon</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Come down and sit in the dust,</span><br /><span class="indent">O virgin daughter of Babylon;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">sit on the ground without a throne,</span><br /><span class="indent">O daughter of the Chaldeans!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For you shall no more be called</span><br /><span class="indent">tender and delicate.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Take the millstones and grind flour,</span><br /><span class="indent">put off your veil,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">strip off your robe, uncover your legs,</span><br /><span class="indent">pass through the rivers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your nakedness shall be uncovered,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your disgrace shall be seen.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will take vengeance,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I will spare no one.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Our Redeemer—the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts is his name—</span><br /><span class="indent">is the Holy One of Israel.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Sit in silence, and go into darkness,</span><br /><span class="indent">O daughter of the Chaldeans;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for you shall no more be called</span><br /><span class="indent">the mistress of kingdoms.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I was angry with my people;</span><br /><span class="indent">I profaned my heritage;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I gave them into your hand;</span><br /><span class="indent">you showed them no mercy;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You said, “I shall be mistress forever,”</span><br /><span class="indent">so that you did not lay these things to heart</span><br /><span class="indent">or remember their end.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures,</span><br /><span class="indent">who sit securely,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who say in your heart,</span><br /><span class="indent">“I am, and there is no one besides me;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I shall not sit as a widow</span><br /><span class="indent">or know the loss of children”:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">These two things shall come to you</span><br /><span class="indent">in a moment, in one day;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the loss of children and widowhood</span><br /><span class="indent">shall come upon you in full measure,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">in spite of your many sorceries</span><br /><span class="indent">and the great power of your enchantments.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You felt secure in your wickedness;</span><br /><span class="indent">you said, “No one sees me”;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and you said in your heart,</span><br /><span class="indent">“I am, and there is no one besides me.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But evil shall come upon you,</span><br /><span class="indent">which you will not know how to charm away;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">disaster shall fall upon you,</span><br /><span class="indent">for which you will not be able to atone;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and ruin shall come upon you suddenly,</span><br /><span class="indent">of which you know nothing.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Stand fast in your enchantments</span><br /><span class="indent">and your many sorceries,</span><br /><span class="indent">with which you have labored from your youth;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">perhaps you may be able to succeed;</span><br /><span class="indent">perhaps you may inspire terror.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You are wearied with your many counsels;</span><br /><span class="indent">let them stand forth and save you,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">those who divide the heavens,</span><br /><span class="indent">who gaze at the stars,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who at the new moons make known</span><br /><span class="indent">what shall come upon you.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, they are like stubble;</span><br /><span class="indent">the fire consumes them;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they cannot deliver themselves</span><br /><span class="indent">from the power of the flame.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">No coal for warming oneself is this,</span><br /><span class="indent">no fire to sit before!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/47-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Such to you are those with whom you have labored,</span><br /><span class="indent">who have done business with you from your youth;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they wander about, each in his own direction;</span><br /><span class="indent">there is no one to save you.</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div 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