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Isaiah 47 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 47
The Humiliation of Babylon
Judgment on Babylon
​
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.
2 ​​Take the millstones and grind meal.
​​Remove your veil,
​​Take off the skirt,
​​Uncover the thigh,
​​Pass through the rivers.
3 ​​Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
​​Yes, your shame will be seen;
​​I will take vengeance,
​​And I will not arbitrate with a man.”
​
4 ​​As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name,
​​The Holy One of Israel.
​
5 ​​“Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
​​O daughter of the Chaldeans;
​​For you shall no longer be called
​​The Lady of Kingdoms.
6 ​​I was angry with My people;
​​I have profaned My inheritance,
​​And given them into your hand.
​​You showed them no mercy;
​​On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.
7 ​​And you said, ‘I shall be a lady forever,’
​​So that you did not take these things to heart,
​​Nor remember the latter end of them.
​
8 ​​“Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,
​​Who dwell securely,
​​Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me;
​​I shall not sit as a widow,
​​Nor shall I know the loss of children’;
9 ​​But these two things shall come to you
​​In a moment, in one day:
​​The loss of children, and widowhood.
​​They shall come upon you in their fullness
​​Because of the multitude of your sorceries,
​​For the great abundance of your enchantments.
​
10 ​​“For you have trusted in your wickedness;
​​You have said, ‘No one sees me’;
​​Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you;
​​And you have said in your heart,
​‘​I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
11 ​​Therefore evil shall come upon you;
​​You shall not know from where it arises.
​​And trouble shall fall upon you;
​​You will not be able to put it off.
​​And desolation shall come upon you suddenly,
​​Which you shall not know.
​
12 ​​“Stand now with your enchantments
​​And the multitude of your sorceries,
​​In which you have labored from your youth—
​​Perhaps you will be able to profit,
​​Perhaps you will prevail.
13 ​​You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;
​​Let now the astrologers, the stargazers,
​​And the monthly prognosticators
​​Stand up and save you
​​From what shall come upon you.
14 ​​Behold, they shall be as stubble,
​​The fire shall burn them;
​​They shall not deliver themselves
​​From the power of the flame;
​​It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
​​Nor a fire to sit before!
15 ​​Thus shall they be to you
​​With whom you have labored,
​​Your merchants from your youth;
​​They shall wander each one to his quarter.
​​No one shall save you.
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