Isaiah 47:3
Good News Translation
People will see you naked; they will see you humbled and shamed. I will take vengeance, and no one will stop me."

New Revised Standard Version
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.

Contemporary English Version
You will suffer the shame of going naked, because I will take revenge, and no one can escape.

New American Bible
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame be seen; I will take vengeance, I will yield to no entreaty, says

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.

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Isaiah 34:1-8 Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and every thing that cometh forth of it. . . .

Isaiah 59:17,18 He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with zeal as with a cloak. . . .

Isaiah 63:4-6 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my redemption is come. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:35,41-43 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come. . . .

Psalm 94:1,2 The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely. . . .

Psalm 137:8,9 O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us. . . .

Jeremiah 13:22,26 And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled. . . .

Jeremiah 50:27,28 Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation. . . .

Jeremiah 51:4,11,20-24,34-36,56 And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof. . . .

Romans 12:19 Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

Hebrews 10:30,31 For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people. . . .

Nahum 3:5 Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy shame to thy face, and will shew thy nakedness to the nations, and thy shame to kingdoms.

Revelation 6:9,10 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. . . .

Revelation 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts: and the cities of the Gentiles fell. And great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the indignation of his wrath.

Revelation 18:5-8,20 For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities. . . .

Context
The Fall of Babylon Predicted
2Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers. 3Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.4Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.…
Cross References
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.

Isaiah 20:4
So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away the prisoners of Egypt, and the captivity of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 34:8
For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.

Isaiah 35:4
Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not: behold your God will bring the revenge of recompense: God himself will come and will save you.

Isaiah 63:4
For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my redemption is come.

Ezekiel 16:37
Behold, I will gather together all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou hast hated: and I will gather them together against thee on every side, and will discover thy shame in their sight, and they shall see all thy nakedness.

Nahum 3:5
Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy shame to thy face, and will shew thy nakedness to the nations, and thy shame to kingdoms.

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