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Isaiah 47 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:1 - Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon: sit on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and luxurious.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:2 - Take a millstone, grind meal: remove thy veil, uncover thy white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:3 - Thy shame shall be uncovered, thy reproaches shall be brought to light: I will exact of thee due vengeance, I will no longer deliver thee to men.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:4 - Thy deliverer is the Lord of hosts, the Holy One of Israel is his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:5 - Sit thou down pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: thou shalt no more be called the strength of a kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - I have been provoked with my people; thou hast defiled mine inheritance: I gave them into thy hand, but thou didst not extend mercy to them: thou madest the yoke of the aged man very heavy,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:7 - and saidst, I shall be a princess for ever: thou didst not perceive these things in thine heart, nor didst thou remember the latter end.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8 - But now hear these words, thou luxurious one, who art the one that sits at ease, that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:9 - But now these two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon thee, for thy sorcery, for the strength of thine enchantments,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - for thy [fn]trusting in wickedness: for thou saidst, I am, and there is not another: know thou, the understanding of these things and thy harlotry shall be thy shame; for thou saidst in thy heart, I am, and there is not another.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:11 - And destruction shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not be aware; there shall be a pit, and thou shalt fall into it: and grief shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not be able to be [fn]clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon thee, and thou shalt not know.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:12 - Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the abundance of thy sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth; if thou canst be profited.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:13 - Thou art wearied in thy counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver thee, let them that see the stars tell thee what is about to come upon thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14 - Behold, they all shall be burnt up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because thou hast coals of fire, sit thou upon them;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - these shall be thy help. Thou hast wearied thyself with traffic from thy youth: every man has wandered to his own home, but thou shalt have no deliverance.
BES Footnotes
Gr. the hope of thy wickedness.
Or, pure.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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