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The Humbling of Babylon the Mistress

Isaiah 47:1-15

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Chapter 47
1 Go down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babel. Sit captive to the earth—there is no throne, daughter of Chaldeans. For you will not again be called tender and voluptuous. 2 Take millstones and grind flour. Uncover your veil, bare the leg, uncover the thigh, cross rivers. 3 Your nakedness will be revealed; even your shame you will see. I will take vengeance and not spare a human. 4 Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts, his name the Holiness of Israel. 5 Sit in silence and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans, for they will no more call you the mistress of kingdoms. 6 I was angry at my people; I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You did not put compassion for them; upon the elder you made heavy upon you very. 7 And you said, "Forever I will be a mistress," and you did not put God upon your heart. You did not remember its end. 8 And now hear this, O delicate one sitting securely, who says in her heart, "I and none besides me; I will not sit as a widow, and I will not know bereavement." 9 And these two will come to you in a moment, in one day: bereavement and widowhood, in their full measure; they have come upon you in the multitude of your sorceries, in the full strength of your tribal or clan alliances—exceedingly. 10 And you trust in your evil; you said, "No one sees me." Your wisdom and your knowledge—they seduce you, and you say in your heart, "I am, and there is none besides me anymore." 11 And evil will come upon you—you will not know its dawn, and disaster will fall upon you—you will not be able to atone; and devastation will come upon you suddenly—you will not know. 12 Stand still for me now in your tribal alliances and in the abundance of your sorceries, in which you have toiled from your youth—perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you will terrify. 13 You are wearied by the abundance of your counsels. Let them stand now and save you—the chief officers of the heavens, the gazers in the stars, the ones making known to the new moons what comes upon you. 14 Behold, they have been like stubble; the fire burned them. They will not save their nephesh from the hand of the flame. There is no ember for their bread of the Presence, no light for sitting opposite him. 15 These were the ones you labored with, your merchants from your youth; each wandered to his own crossing. There is no savior for you.