Isaiah 47:1-9 ▼

1 |Come down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a chair, Daughter of the Chaldeans! For no longer will they call you tender and attractive.

2 Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.

3 Your nakedness will be exposed, and your disgrace will also be seen. I'll take vengeance, and I will spare no mortal.

4 |Our Redeemer— the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name— is the Holy One of Israel.

5 |Sit silent, and enter into the darkness, you daughter of the Chaldeans; for no more will they call you Queen of Kingdoms.

6 I was angry with my people, and I desecrated my heritage, and gave them into your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the aged you laid your yoke most heavily.

7 You said, 'I will always continue—Queen forever!' You didn't take these things into your thinking, nor did you think about their consequences.

8 |Now hear this, you wanton creature, lounging with no cares, and saying to herself: 'I am the one, and there will be none besides me; I won't live as a widow, nor will I see the loss of children.'

9 Both of these things will overtake you suddenly on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, despite the multitude of your incantations and the great power of your spells.|