| 47 | Isaiah | ||
| 1 | Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. | Judgement on Babylon. Is.47.1-15 | |
| 2 | Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers. | ||
| 3 | Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man. | ||
| 4 | Our Redeemer - Yahweh 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 shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms. | ||
| 6 | I was angry with my people, I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand, you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy. | ||
| 7 | You said, "I shall be mistress for ever," so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end. | ||
| 8 | Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children": | ||
| 9 | These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments. | ||
| 10 | You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." | ||
| 11 | But evil shall come upon you, for which you cannot atone; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to expiate; and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing. | ||
| 12 | Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have laboured from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed, perhaps you may inspire terror. | ||
| 13 | You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons predict what shall befall you. | ||
| 14 | Behold, they are like stubble, the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before! | ||
| 15 | Such to you are those with whom you have laboured, who have trafficked with you from your youth; they wander about each in his own direction; there is no one to save you. | ||
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