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2“Take the millstones and grind meal.
Remove your veil, strip off the skirt,
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
3“Your nakedness will be uncovered,
Your shame also will be exposed;
I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.”
4Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.
5“Sit silently, and go into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans,
For you will no longer be called
The queen of kingdoms.
6“I was angry with My people,
I profaned My heritage
And gave them into your hand.
You did not show mercy to them,
On the aged you made your yoke very heavy.
7“Yet you said, ‘I will be a queen forever.’
These things you did not consider
Nor remember the outcome of them.
8“Now, then, hear this, you sensual one,
Who dwells securely,
Who says in your heart,
‘I am, and there is no one besides me.
I will not sit as a widow,
Nor know loss of children.’
9“But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many sorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.
10“You felt secure in your wickedness and said,
‘No one sees me,’
Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you;
For you have said in your heart,
‘I am, and there is no one besides me.’
11“But evil will come on you
Which you will not know how to charm away;
And disaster will fall on you
For which you cannot atone;
And destruction about which you do not know
Will come on you suddenly.
12“Stand fast now in your spells
And in your many sorceries
With which you have labored from your youth;
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you may cause trembling.
13“You are wearied with your many counsels;
Let now the astrologers,
Those who prophesy by the stars,
Those who predict by the new moons,
Stand up and save you from what will come upon you.
14“Behold, they have become like stubble,
Fire burns them;
They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame;
There will be no coal to warm by
Nor a fire to sit before!
15“So have those become to you with whom you have labored,
Who have trafficked with you from your youth;
Each has wandered in his own way;
There is none to save you.
NASB ©1995
Parallel Verses
American Standard VersionTake the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Douay-Rheims BibleTake a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
Darby Bible TranslationTake the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:
English Revised VersionTake the millstones, and grind meal: remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Webster's Bible TranslationTake the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
World English BibleTake the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Young's Literal Translation Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
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