| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
