Isaiah 47 — Legacy Standard Bible

Lament for Babylon

47“^aCome down and sit in the dust,O ^bvirgin ^cdaughter of Babylon;Sit on the ground without a throne,O daughter of the Chaldeans!For you shall no longer be called ^dtender and delicate.²“Take the ^amillstones and ^bgrind flour.Uncover your ^cveil, ^dstrip off the skirt,Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.³“Your ^anakedness will be uncovered;Your reproach also will be seen;I will ^btake vengeance and will not ¹spare a man.”⁴Our ^aRedeemer, Yahweh of hosts is His name,The Holy One of Israel.⁵“^aSit silently, and go into ^bdarkness,O daughter of the Chaldeans,For you will no longer be calledThe ^cqueen of ^dkingdoms.⁶“I was furious with My people;I profaned My inheritanceAnd gave them into your hand.You did not show compassion to them,On the ^aaged you made your yoke very heavy.⁷“Yet you said, ‘I will be a ^aqueen forever.’These things you did not ^bput on your heartNor remember the ^coutcome of ¹them.⁸“So now, hear this, you ^asensual one,Who ^bsits securely,Who says in ¹your heart,‘^cI am, and there is no one besides me.I will ^dnot sit as a widow,Nor know loss of children.’⁹“But these ^atwo things will come on you ^bsuddenly in one day:Loss of children and widowhood.They will come on you in full measureIn spite of your many ^csorceries,In spite of the great might of your spells.¹⁰“You felt ^asecure in your evil and said,‘^bNo one sees me,’Your ^cwisdom and your knowledge ¹have turned you astray;So you have said in your heart,‘^dI am, and there is no one besides me.’¹¹“But ^aevil will come on youWhich you will not know how to charm away;And disaster will fall on youFor which you cannot atone;And ^bdestruction about which you do not knowWill come on you ^csuddenly.¹²“Stand fast now in your ^aspellsAnd in your many sorceriesWith which you have labored from your youth;Perhaps you will be able to profit;Perhaps you may cause trembling.¹³“You are ^awearied with your many counsels;Let now the ^bastrologers,Those who behold visions by the stars,Those who predict by the new moons,Stand up and ^csave you from what will come upon you.¹⁴“Behold, they have become ^alike stubble,^bFire burns them;They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame;There will be ^cno coal to warm byNor a fire to sit before!¹⁵“Thus they have become for you, those among whom you have labored,Who have ^atraded with you from your youth;Each has wandered in his own ¹way;There is ^bnone to save you.