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ISAIAH ยท Chapter 47
47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit
on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you
shall no more be called tender and delicate.
47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make
bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen:
I will take vengeance, and I will not meet you as a man.
47:4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One
of Israel.
47:5 Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans:
for you shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
47:6 I was angry with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance,
and given them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; upon the ancient
have you very heavily laid your yoke.
47:7 And you said, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you did not
lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of
it.
47:8 Therefore hear now this, you that are given to pleasures, that
dwell carelessly, that says in your heart, I am, and none else beside me;
I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
47:9 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day,
the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon you in their
perfection for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great abundance
of your enchantments.
47:10 For 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 none else beside me.
47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence
it rises: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put
it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not
know.
47:12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your
sorceries, wherein you have laboured from your youth; if so be you shall
be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
47:13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the
astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly sign tellers, stand up, and save
you from these things that shall come upon you.
47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they
shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not
be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
47:15 Thus shall they be unto you with whom you have laboured, even
your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter;
none shall save you.
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