Isaiah 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.

^2gTake the millstones, and ^hgrind meal:

Uncover thy ⁱlocks, make bare the leg,

^kUncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

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

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

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

ⁿThe Holy One of Israel.

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

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

^6sI 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.

⁷And ^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.

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

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

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

⁹But ^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.

¹⁰For 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 besides me.

¹¹Therefore 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.

^12qStand 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.

^13sThou 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.

¹⁴Behold, 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.

¹⁵Thus 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.

XLVIII.