Chapter 47
1: Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on
the ground: there is 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 thee as a man.
4: As for
our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is 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: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy
heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
8: Therefore hear now this, thou that
art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me;
I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
9: But these two
things 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, and 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 am, 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, which 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 these things 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: there shall not be a coal
to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
15: Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast
laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save
thee.
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