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Isaiah 47 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Mourning for Babylon

47 “^(A)Come down and sit in the dust,
^(B)Virgin ^(C)daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you will no longer be called ^(D)tender and delicate.
²Take the ^(E)millstones and ^(F)grind flour.
Remove your ^(G)veil, ^(H)strip off the skirt,
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
³Your ^(I)nakedness will be uncovered,
Your shame will also be exposed;
I will ^(J)take vengeance and will not spare anyone.”
⁴Our ^(K)Redeemer, the Lord of armies is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.
⁵“^(L)Sit silently, and go into ^(M)darkness,
Daughter of the Chaldeans;
For you will no longer be called
The ^(N)queen of ^(O)kingdoms.
⁶I was angry with My people,
I profaned My heritage
And handed them over to you.
You did not show mercy to them,
On the ^(P)aged you made your yoke very heavy.
⁷Yet you said, ‘I will be a ^(Q)queen forever.’
These things you did not ^(R)consider
Nor remember the ^(S)outcome of ^[a]them.

⁸“Now, then, hear this, you ^(T)luxuriant one,
Who ^(U)lives securely,
Who says in her heart,
‘^(V)I am, and there is no one besides me.
I will ^(W)not sit as a widow,
Nor know the loss of children.’
⁹But these ^(X)two things will come on you ^(Y)suddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many ^(Z)sorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.
¹⁰You felt ^(AA)secure in your wickedness and said,
‘^(AB)No one sees me,’
Your ^(AC)wisdom and your knowledge, ^[b]they have led you astray;
For you have said in your heart,
‘^(AD)I am, and there is no one besides me.’
¹¹But ^(AE)evil 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 ^(AF)destruction about which you do not know
Will come on you ^(AG)suddenly.

¹²“Persist now in your ^(AH)spells
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.
¹³You are ^(AI)wearied with your many counsels;
Let now the ^(AJ)astrologers,
Those who prophesy by the stars,
Those who predict by the new moons,
Stand up and ^(AK)save you from what will come upon you.
¹⁴Behold, they have become ^(AL)like stubble,
^(AM)Fire burns them;
They cannot save themselves from the power of the flame;
There will be ^(AN)no coal to warm by
Nor a fire to sit before!
¹⁵So have those become to you with whom you have labored,
Those who have ^(AO)done business with you from your youth;
Each has wandered in his own ^[c]way;
There is ^(AP)no one to save you.

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