8  Remember this, and rshew yourselves men:

sBring it again to mind, O ye ttransgressors.

9  uRemember the former things of old:

vFor I am God, and there is none else;

I am God, and there is none like me,

10  wDeclaring the end from the beginning,

And from ancient times the things that are not yet done,

Saying, xMy counsel shall stand,

And I will do yall my pleasure:

11  Calling za ravenous bird afrom the east,

†The man ythat executeth my counsel from a far country:

Yea, bI have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass;

I have purposed it, I will also do it.

12  Hearken unto me, cye stouthearted,

That are far from righteousness:

13  dI bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off,

And my salvation eshall not tarry:

And I will place fsalvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

47 aCome down, and sit in the dust, O virgin bdaughter of Babylon,

cSit on the ground: dthere is no throne,

eO daughter of the Chaldeans:

For thou shalt no more be called ftender and delicate.

2  gTake the millstones, and hgrind meal:

Uncover thy ilocks, make bare the leg,

kUncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

3  kThy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen:

lI will take vengeance, and I will not mmeet thee as a man.

4  As for noour redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name,

nThe Holy One of Israel.

5  Sit thou psilent, and get thee into pdarkness, eO daughter of the Chaldeans:

qFor thou shalt no more be called, rThe lady of kingdoms.

6  sI was wroth with tmy people, uI have polluted tmine inheritance,

And given them into thine hand:

Thou didst shew them no mercy;

vUpon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

7  And wthou saidst, I shall be ra lady for ever:

So that thou didst not xlay these things to thy heart,

Neither didst remember ythe latter end of it.

8  Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, zthat dwellest carelessly,

zaThat sayest in thine heart, bI am, and none else beside me;

cI shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know dthe loss of children:

9  But ethese two things shall come to thee fin a moment gin one day,

dThe loss of children, and widowhood:

They shall come upon thee in their perfection

hFor the multitude of thy isorceries, and for the great abundance of hthine ienchantments.

10  For thou khast trusted in thy wickedness: lthou hast said, None seeth me.

mThy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath ||perverted thee;

And athou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

11  Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know †from whence it riseth:

And nmischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to †put it off:

And odesolation shall come upon thee fsuddenly, which pthou shalt not know.

12  qStand now hwith thine enchantments, and hwith the multitude of thy sorceries,

Wherein sthou hast laboured from thy youth;

If so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest rprevail.

13  sThou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels.

tLet now the †astrologers, the stargazers, †the monthly prognosticators,

Stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

14  Behold, they shall be uas stubble; the fire shall burn them;

They shall not deliver †themselves from the power of the flame:

There shall not be a coal to warm at, nor vfire to sit before it.

15  Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even wthy merchants, from thy youth:

They shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

48 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob,

Which are called by the name of Israel,

And aare come forth out of the waters of Judah,

bWhich swear by the name of the Lord,

And make mention of cthe God of Israel,

But not din truth, nor in righteousness.

2  For they call themselves of ethe holy city,

And fstay themselves upon the God of Israel;

The Lord of hosts is his name.

3  gI have declared the former things hfrom the beginning;

And they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them;

I did them suddenly, and ithey came to pass.

4  Because I knew that thou art †obstinate,

And jthy neck is an iron sinew,

And thy brow brass;

5  I have even hfrom the beginning declared it to thee;

Before it came to pass I shewed it thee:

kLest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them,

And my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

6  Thou hast heard, see all this;

And will not ye declare it?

I have shewed thee new things from this time,

Even lhidden things, and thou didst not know them.

7  They are created now, and not hfrom the beginning;

Even before the day when thou heardest them not;

kLest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

8  Yea, thou heardest not; yea, kthou knewest not;

Yea, hfrom that time that thine ear was not opened:

For I knew that thou wouldest mdeal very treacherously,

And wast called a transgressor nfrom the womb.

9  oFor my name’s sake pwill qI defer mine anger,

And for my praise will I refrain for thee,

That I cut thee not off.

10  Behold, rI have refined thee, but not ||with silver;

I have chosen thee sin the furnace of affliction.

11  tFor mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it:

For uhow should my name be polluted?

And vI will not give my glory unto another.