# Isaiah 47 [[Isaiah 46|←]] • [[Isaiah 48|→]] --- ### 1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. ### 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. ### 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet a man. ### 4 our redeemer, the Lord of hosts his name, the Holy One of Israel. ### 5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. ### 6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. ### 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: that thou didst not lay these to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. ### 8 Therefore hear now this, given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I and none else beside me; I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: ### 9 But these two 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 the multitude of thy sorceries, for the great abundance of thine enchantments. ### 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I and none else beside me. ### 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, thou shalt not know. ### 12 Stand 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. ### 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from that shall come upon thee. ### 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: not a coal to warm at, fire to sit before it. ### 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.