Isaiah 47:1-9 ▼

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 longer be called tender and delicate.

2 Take the millstones and grind flour. Uncover your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

3 Your nakedness will be uncovered; Your reproach also will be seen; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.”

4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh 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 furious with My people; I profaned My inheritance And gave them into your hand. You did not show compassion 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 put on your heart Nor remember the outcome of them.

8 “So now, hear this, you sensual one, Who sits 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 might of your spells.