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1 “ Go down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For no longer will they call you tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstones and grind flour! Uncover your veil and strip away your skirt; uncover your thigh; pass over the rivers! 3 Your nakedness will be uncovered—indeed, your shame will be seen! I will take vengeance, and no man will I meet.” 4 Our Redeemer—YHWH of hosts is His name—is the Holy One of Israel. 5 “Sit in silence and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you no longer will be called Queen of Kingdoms. 6 I was angry with My people; I have profaned My heritage and I have given them into your hand. You did not appoint for them acts of mercy; upon the elderly you made your yoke very heavy. 7 And you said, ‘Forever will I be, queen!’ For you did not set these things upon your heart, and you did not consider its end. 8 And now, hear this, O luxurious one, dwelling in security, the one saying in her heart, ‘It is I and no one else! I will not sit as a widow, and I will not know bereavement.’ 9 And these two things will come to you in a moment, in a single day: Bereavement and widowhood. In full measure they will come upon you in the multitude of your sorceries, in the great abundance of you spells. Isaiah 47:1-9, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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