Isaiah

Isaiah 47 ©

1 God's judgments upon Babylon, for her unmercifulness and pride shall be irresistible. 12 All her sorceries will not avail her.

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aCOME down, and sit in the dust, O virgin bdaughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, cO daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

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dTake the millstones, and grind meal: euncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

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Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: fI will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

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gAs for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

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hSit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

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iI was *wroth with my people, jI have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: kthou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

k Ob. 1.10-16.
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¶And thou saidst, I shall be la lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

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Therefore hear now this, mthou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, nI am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

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oBut these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for pthe multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

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¶For thou hast qtrusted in thy wickedness: thou rhast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath 1perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

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¶Therefore sshall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know 2from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to 3put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

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tStand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

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uThou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the 4astrologers, the stargazers, 5the monthly *prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

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Behold, vthey shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver 6themselves from the power of the flame: wthere shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

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Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even xthy merchants, from thy youth: ythey shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.