Isa 47 | NASB1995 | STEP | “ Come down and sit in the dust , O virgin daughter of Babylon ; Sit on the ground without a throne , O daughter of the Chaldeans ! For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate .

Isaiah 47

Lament for Babylon

1 ^a“Come 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 ^emillstones and ^fgrind meal.
Remove your ^gveil, ^hstrip off the skirt,
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
3 “Your ⁱnakedness will be uncovered,
Your shame also will be exposed;
I will ^jtake vengeance and will not ^{▼▼ Lit meet}spare a man.”
4 Our ^lRedeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.
5 ^m“Sit silently, and go into ⁿdarkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans,
For you will no longer be called
The ^oqueen of ^pkingdoms.
6 “I was angry with My people,
I profaned My heritage
And gave them into your hand.
You did not show mercy to them,
On the ^qaged you made your yoke very heavy.
7 “Yet you said, ‘I will be a ^rqueen forever.’
These things you did not ^sconsider
Nor remember the ^toutcome of ^{▼▼ Lit it}them.

8 “Now, then, hear this, you ^vsensual one,
Who ^wdwells securely,
Who says in ^{▼▼ Lit her}your heart,
‘ ^yI am, and there is no one besides me.
I will ^znot sit as a widow,
Nor know loss of children.’
9 “But these ^aatwo things will come on you ^absuddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many ^acsorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.
10 “You felt ^adsecure in your wickedness and said,
‘ ^aeNo one sees me,’
Your ^afwisdom and your knowledge, ^{▼▼ Lit it has}they have deluded you;
For you have said in your heart,
‘ ^ahI am, and there is no one besides me.’
11 “But ^aievil will come on you
Which you will not know how to charm away;
And disaster will fall on you
For which you cannot atone;
And ^ajdestruction about which you do not know
Will come on you ^aksuddenly.

12 “Stand fast now in your ^alspells
And in your many sorceries
With which you have labored from your youth;
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you may cause trembling.
13 “You are ^amwearied with your many counsels;
Let now the ^anastrologers,
Those who prophesy by the stars,
Those who predict by the new moons,
Stand up and ^aosave you from what will come upon you.
14 “Behold, they have become ^aplike stubble,
^aqFire burns them;
They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame;
There will be ^arno coal to warm by
Nor a fire to sit before!
15 “So have those become to you with whom you have labored,
Who have ^astrafficked with you from your youth;
Each has wandered in his own ^{▼▼ Lit side, region}way;
There is ^aunone to save you.