Isa 47 | ABEn | STEP | Go down, sit upon the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground! There is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For no longer shall you be added to be called tender and delicate.

Isaiah 47

CHAPTER 47 The Shame of Babylon

1 Go down, sit upon the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground! There is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For no longer shall you be added to be called tender and delicate. 2 Take a millstone! Grind flour! Uncover your face covering! Expose the gray hairs! Uncover the legs! Be passed over the rivers! 3 [²shall be uncovered ¹Your shame]; [²shall be shone forth ¹your scornings]; [²the ³just one ⁴from ⁵you ¹I will take]; no longer shall I deliver up to men. 4 The one rescuing you -- the lord of Hosts is his name, the holy one of Israel. 5 Sit being vexed! Enter into the darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans! No longer should you be called, the strength of a kingdom. 6 I was provoked by my people. You defiled my inheritance. I gave them into your hand, but you did not grant [²to them ¹mercy]. [²the ³old man ¹You oppressed] by the yoke exceedingly. 7 And you said, [³into ⁴the ⁵eon ¹I will be ²ruling]. You comprehended not these things in your heart, nor remembered the latter end. 8 But now hear these things! O delicate one, O one sitting down, O one yielding. O one saying in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know bereavement.

Destruction of Babylon

9 But now [²shall come ³upon ⁴you ¹these two things] suddenly in [²day ¹one]; childlessness and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you in your sorcery, in the strength of your enchantments -- exceedingly. 10 In the hope of your wickedness, for you said, I am, and there is not another. Know that the understanding of these things and your harlotry [³to you ¹will be ²shame]! For you said in your heart, I am, and there is not another. 11 And [²shall come ³upon ⁴you ¹destruction]. And in no way shall you know a cesspool is there, and you shall fall into it. And [²shall come ³upon ⁴you ¹misery], and in no way shall you be able [²clean ¹to be]. And [²shall come ³upon ⁴you ⁵suddenly ¹destruction], and in no way shall you know. 12 Stand now! with your enchantments, and in the abundance of your sorcery! which you learned from your youth -- if you shall be able to derive benefit. 13 You are tired in your counsels. Let [⁵stand ⁶indeed ⁷and ⁸deliver ⁹you ¹the ²astrologers ³of the ⁴heaven]! [²the ones ³seeing ⁴the ⁵stars ¹let] announce to you what is about to come upon you! 14 Behold, all are as sticks upon a fire, they shall be incinerated, and in no way shall they rescue their soul from out of the flame. For you shall have coals of fire to sit by them; 15 these shall be your help. You tired in the revolt from your youth. A man [²by ³himself ¹wanders], but to you there will be no deliverance.