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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">Christian Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/csb/esv/isaiah/47.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><section epub:type="chapter" id="csb-Isaiah.47" /><h3 class="head1">The Fall of Babylon</h3><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.1" /><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Go down and sit in the dust,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.1.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">Virgin Daughter Babylon.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.1.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">Sit on the ground without a throne,</p><p class="poem">Daughter Chaldea!</p><p class="poem">For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.2" /> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Take millstones and grind flour;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.2.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">remove your veil,</p><p class="poem">strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,</p><p class="poem">wade through the streams.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.3" /> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Your nakedness will be uncovered,</p><p class="poem">and your disgrace will be exposed.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">I will take vengeance;</p><p class="poem">I will spare no one.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.47.3.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The Holy One of Israel is our Redeemer;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.4.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies is his name.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Daughter Chaldea,</p><p class="poem">sit in silence<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.5.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> and go into darkness.</p><p class="poem">For you will no longer be called mistress of kingdoms.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I was angry with my people;</p><p class="poem">I profaned my possession,</p><p class="poem">and I handed them over to you.</p><p class="poem">You showed them no mercy;</p><p class="poem">you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You said, ‘I will be the queen forever.’</p><p class="poem">You did not take these things to heart</p><p class="poem">or think about their outcome.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“So now hear this, lover of luxury,</p><p class="poem">who sits securely,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.8.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">who says to herself,</p><p class="poem">‘I am, and there is no one else.</p><p class="poem">I will never be a widow</p><p class="poem">or know the loss of children.’<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.8.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>These two things will happen to you</p><p class="poem">suddenly, in one day:</p><p class="poem">loss of children and widowhood.</p><p class="poem">They will happen to you in their entirety,</p><p class="poem">in spite of your many sorceries<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.9.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and the potency of your spells.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You were secure in your wickedness;</p><p class="poem">you said, ‘No one sees me.’<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.10.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">Your wisdom and knowledge</p><p class="poem">led you astray.</p><p class="poem">You said to yourself,</p><p class="poem">‘I am, and there is no one else.’</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But disaster will happen to you;</p><p class="poem">you will not know how to avert it.</p><p class="poem">And it will fall on you,</p><p class="poem">but you will be unable to ward it off.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.47.11.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem">Devastation will happen to you suddenly</p><p class="poem">and unexpectedly.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.11.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So take your stand with your spells</p><p class="poem">and your many sorceries,</p><p class="poem">which you have wearied yourself with from your youth.</p><p class="poem">Perhaps you will be able to succeed;</p><p class="poem">perhaps you will inspire terror!</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You are worn out with your many consultations.</p><p class="poem">So let the astrologers stand and save you —</p><p class="poem">those who observe the stars,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">those who predict monthly</p><p class="poem">what will happen to you.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Look, they are like stubble;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">fire burns them.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.47.14.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">They cannot rescue themselves</p><p class="poem">from the power of the flame.</p><p class="poem">This is not a coal for warming themselves,</p><p class="poem">or a fire to sit beside!</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.47.15" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/47-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>This is what they are to you —</p><p class="poem">those who have wearied you</p><p class="poem">and have traded with you from your youth —</p><p class="poem">each wanders on his own way;</p><p class="poem">no one can save you.</p></blockquote><br /><section id="footnotes-Isaiah.47" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Isaiah.47.3.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.3">47:3</a></span> Hb obscure</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.47.11.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.11">47:11</a></span> Or <span class="italic">to atone for it</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Isaiah.47" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.1">47:1</a></span> Is 3:26; Jr 48:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.1">47:1</a></span> Ps 137:8; Jr 50:42; 51:33; Zch 2:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.2">47:2</a></span> Ex 11:5; Jb 31:10; Mt 24:41</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.3">47:3</a></span> Jr 13:26; Lm 1:8; Ezk 16:37; Nah 3:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.4">47:4</a></span> Is 41:14; 43:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.5">47:5</a></span> Is 23:2; Jr 8:14; Lm 2:10; 3:2,28</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.8.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.8">47:8</a></span> Zph 2:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.8.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.8">47:8</a></span> Rv 18:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.9.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.9">47:9</a></span> Is 47:13; Nah 3:4; Rv 18:23</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.10.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.10">47:10</a></span> Ps 139:3,11</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.11.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.11">47:11</a></span> Is 13:6; Jr 51:8,43; Lk 17:27; 1Th 5:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.13">47:13</a></span> Is 8:19; 44:25; 47:9; Dn 2:2,10</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.14">47:14</a></span> Is 5:24; Nah 1:10; Mal 4:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.47.14.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.47.14">47:14</a></span> Is 10:17; Jr 51:30–32,58</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Isaiah.47" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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