Isa 47 | NASB2020 | STEP | “ Come down and sit in the dust , Virgin daughter of Babylon ; Sit on the ground without a throne , Daughter of the Chaldeans ! For you will no longer be called tender and delicate .

Isaiah 47

Mourning for Babylon

1 “ ^aCome down and sit in the dust,
^bVirgin ^cdaughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you will no longer be called ^dtender and delicate.
2 “Take the ^emillstones and ^fgrind flour.
Remove your ^gveil, ^hstrip off the skirt,
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
3 “Your ⁱnakedness will be uncovered,
Your shame will also be exposed;
I will ^jtake vengeance and will not spare anyone.”
4 Our ^kRedeemer, the Lord of armies is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.
5 “ ^lSit silently, and go into ^mdarkness,
Daughter of the Chaldeans;
For you will no longer be called
The ⁿqueen of ^okingdoms.
6 “I was angry with My people,
I profaned My heritage
And handed them over to you.
You did not show mercy to them,
On the ^paged you made your yoke very heavy.
7 “Yet you said, ‘I will be a ^qqueen forever.’
These things you did not ^rconsider
Nor remember the ^soutcome of ^{▼▼Lit it}them.

8 “Now, then, hear this, you ^uluxuriant one,
Who ^vlives securely,
Who says in her heart,
‘ ^wI am, and there is no one besides me.
I will ^xnot sit as a widow,
Nor know the loss of children.’
9 “But these ^ytwo things will come on you ^zsuddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many ^aasorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.
10 “You felt ^absecure in your wickedness and said,
‘ ^acNo one sees me,’
Your ^adwisdom and your knowledge, ^{▼▼Lit it has}they have led you astray;
For you have said in your heart,
‘ ^afI am, and there is no one besides me.’
11 “But ^agevil 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 ^ahdestruction about which you do not know
Will come on you ^aisuddenly.

12 “Persist now in your ^ajspells
And in your many sorceries
With which you have labored from your youth;
Perhaps you will be able to benefit,
Perhaps you may cause trembling.
13 “You are ^akwearied with your many counsels;
Let now the ^alastrologers,
Those who prophesy by the stars,
Those who predict by the new moons,
Stand up and ^amsave you from what will come upon you.
14 “Behold, they have become ^anlike stubble,
^aoFire burns them;
They cannot save themselves from the power of the flame;
There will be ^apno coal to warm by
Nor a fire to sit before!
15 “So have those become to you with whom you have labored,
Those who have ^aqdone business with you from your youth;
Each has wandered in his own ^{▼▼Lit side, region}way;
There is ^asno one to save you.