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Isaiah 47

¹ The Fall of Babylon

¹ "Go down, sit in the dust, ¹ Virgin Daughter Babylon; ¹ sit on the ground without a throne, ¹ queen city of the Babylonians.^[a] ¹ No more will you be called ¹ tender or delicate.

² Take millstones and grind flour; ² take off your veil. ² Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, ² and wade through the streams.

³ Your nakedness will be exposed ³ and your shame uncovered. ³ I will take vengeance; ³ I will spare no one."

⁴ Our Redeemer—the Lord Almighty is his name— ⁴ is the Holy One of Israel.

⁵ "Sit in silence, go into darkness, ⁵ queen city of the Babylonians; ⁵ no more will you be called ⁵ queen of kingdoms.

⁶ I was angry with my people ⁶ and desecrated my inheritance; ⁶ I gave them into your hand, ⁶ and you showed them no mercy. ⁶ Even on the aged ⁶ you laid a very heavy yoke.

⁷ You said, 'I am forever— ⁷ the eternal queen!' ⁷ But you did not consider these things ⁷ or reflect on what might happen.

⁸ "Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, ⁸ lounging in your security ⁸ and saying to yourself, ⁸ 'I am, and there is none besides me. ⁸ I will never be a widow ⁸ or suffer the loss of children.'

⁹ Both of these will overtake you ⁹ in a moment, on a single day: ⁹ loss of children and widowhood. ⁹ They will come upon you in full measure, ⁹ in spite of your many sorceries ⁹ and all your potent spells.

¹⁰ You have trusted in your wickedness ¹⁰ and have said, 'No one sees me.' ¹⁰ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you ¹⁰ when you say to yourself, ¹⁰ 'I am, and there is none besides me.'

¹¹ Disaster will come upon you, ¹¹ and you will not know how to conjure it away. ¹¹ A calamity will fall upon you ¹¹ that you cannot ward off with a ransom; ¹¹ a catastrophe you cannot foresee ¹¹ will suddenly come upon you.

¹² "Keep on, then, with your magic spells ¹² and with your many sorceries, ¹² which you have labored at since childhood. ¹² Perhaps you will succeed, ¹² perhaps you will cause terror.

¹³ All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! ¹³ Let your astrologers come forward, ¹³ those stargazers who make predictions month by month, ¹³ let them save you from what is coming upon you.

¹⁴ Surely they are like stubble; ¹⁴ the fire will burn them up. ¹⁴ They cannot even save themselves ¹⁴ from the power of the flame. ¹⁴ Here are no coals to warm anyone; ¹⁴ here is no fire to sit by.

¹⁵ That is all they can do for you— ¹⁵ these you have dealt with ¹⁵ and labored with since childhood. ¹⁵ All of them go on in their error; ¹⁵ there is not one that can save you.