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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. |
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2 | Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy
locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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: |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
