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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Humiliation of Babylon</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Come down and sit in the dust,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">virgin daughter Babylon!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Sit on the ground without a throne,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">daughter Chaldea!</span></span><br /><span class="text">For you shall no more be called</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">tender and delicate.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Take the millstones and grind meal,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">remove your veil,</span></span><br /><span class="text">strip off your robe, uncover your legs,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">pass through the rivers.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Your nakedness shall be uncovered,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and your shame shall be seen.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will take vengeance,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I will spare no one.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Our Redeemer—the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts is his name—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">is the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Sit in silence, and go into darkness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">daughter Chaldea!</span></span><br /><span class="text">For you shall no more be called</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the mistress of kingdoms.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>I was angry with my people,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I profaned my heritage;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I gave them into your hand,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you showed them no mercy;</span></span><br /><span class="text">on the aged you made your yoke</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">exceedingly heavy.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>You said, “I shall be mistress forever,”</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so that you did not lay these things to heart</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or remember their end.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who sit securely,</span></span><br /><span class="text">who say in your heart,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">“I am, and there is no one besides me;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I shall not sit as a widow</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or know the loss of children”—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>both these things shall come upon you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">in a moment, in one day:</span></span><br /><span class="text">the loss of children and widowhood</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">shall come upon you in full measure,</span></span><br /><span class="text">in spite of your many sorceries</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the great power of your enchantments.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>You felt secure in your wickedness;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you said, “No one sees me.”</span></span><br /><span class="text">Your wisdom and your knowledge</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">led you astray,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and you said in your heart,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">“I am, and there is no one besides me.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>But evil shall come upon you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">which you cannot charm away;</span></span><br /><span class="text">disaster shall fall upon you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">which you will not be able to ward off;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and ruin shall come on you suddenly,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">of which you know nothing.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Stand fast in your enchantments</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and your many sorceries,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">with which you have labored from your youth;</span></span><br /><span class="text">perhaps you may be able to succeed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">perhaps you may inspire terror.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>You are wearied with your many consultations;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let those who study<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22499a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22499a" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> the heavens</span></span><br /><span class="text">stand up and save you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">those who gaze at the stars,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and at each new moon predict</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">what<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22499b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22499b" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> shall befall you.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>See, they are like stubble,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the fire consumes them;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they cannot deliver themselves</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">from the power of the flame.</span></span><br /><span class="text">No coal for warming oneself is this,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">no fire to sit before!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Such to you are those with whom you have labored,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who have trafficked with you from your youth;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they all wander about in their own paths;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">there is no one to save you.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 47:13">Isaiah 47:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 47:13">Isaiah 47:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Compare Vg: Heb <i>from what</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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