Isaiah 47:1-9 ▼

1 “Go down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter Chaldea! For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.

2 Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.

3 Your nakedness will be uncovered, and your disgrace will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

4 The Holy One of Israel is our Redeemer; The LORD of Armies is his name.

5 “Daughter Chaldea, sit in silence and go into darkness. For you will no longer be called mistress of kingdoms.

6 I was angry with my people; I profaned my possession, and I handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

7 You said, ‘I will be the queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or think about their outcome.

8 “So now hear this, lover of luxury, who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is no one else. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’

9 These two things will happen to you suddenly, in one day: loss of children and widowhood. They will happen to you in their entirety, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.