Isaiah 47
47
1Go down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Babylonia!#47:1. “Babylonia”: literally, “Chaldea,” another name for Babylonia. Also verse 5, and 48:14. No longer will people call you gentle and delicate. 2Go to work grinding flour with millstones. Remove your veil. Strip off your skirt, bare your legs, wade through rivers. 3You will be seen naked; what should be kept private will be shamefully exposed. I will take vengeance—I won't spare anyone.
4Our Redeemer—his name is the Lord Almighty—is the Holy One of Israel.
5Sit quietly, and go into the darkness, daughter of Babylonia. Never again will you be called queen of all kingdoms. 6I was angry with my people, and I abandoned those who belonged to me.#47:6. “I abandoned those who belonged to me”: literally, “I profaned my inheritance.” I handed them over to you. But you didn't show them mercy—you even mistreated old people. 7You said, “I will reign forever as the eternal queen.” But you didn't think about what was coming; you didn't remember what would happen to you in the end.
8Now listen to this, you sensual woman,#47:8. Though the image of a woman continues, the subject is the kingdom of Babylon. sitting there so sure of yourself, saying to yourself, “I am supreme#47:8. “I am supreme”: the Hebrew simply has the emphatic “I.”—there's nobody besides me. I shall never be a widow or experience the loss of my children.”
9But both these things will happen to you in quick succession! In just one day you will lose your children and become a widow. You will have this experience in its totality, in spite of all your witchcraft, in spite of all your magic spells. 10You put your trust in your evil actions, saying, “No one can see what I'm doing.” Your wisdom and knowledge seduced you, and you told yourself, “I am supreme—there's nobody besides me.” 11Evil#47:11. The same word is used here as in verse 10. is going to strike you, and you won't be able to magic it away. Disaster will fall on you that you can't stop by paying a ransom. Destruction will suddenly hit you that you weren't expecting.
12So keep going with your magic spells and all your witchcraft, which you have worked at since you were young. Maybe you'll be successful, maybe you'll terrify people! 13All the advice you've received has worn you out! Where are your astrologers, those who look to the stars for guidance, who give you their predictions every month? Let them stand up and save you from what's coming down on you! 14But look at them! They're like stubble that fire burns up completely—they can't even save their own lives from the flames. This is no fire to sit beside and grow warm! 15All those people you've worked with, all those you've traded with from when you were young—they will all go their own way, nobody will come and save you.
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Isaiah 47
47
The Humiliation of Babylon
1“Come #Jer. 48:18down and #Is. 3:26sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of #Is. 14:18–23; Jer. 25:12; 50:1—51:64Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no more be called
Tender and delicate.
2#Ex. 11:5; Jer. 25:10Take the millstones and grind meal.
Remove your veil,
Take off the skirt,
Uncover the thigh,
Pass through the rivers.
3#Is. 3:17; 20:4Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
Yes, your shame will be seen;
#(Rom. 12:19)I will take vengeance,
And I will not arbitrate with a man.”
4As for #Jer. 50:34our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.
5“Sit in #1 Sam. 2:9silence, and go into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans;
#Is. 13:19; (Dan. 2:37); Rev. 17:18For you shall no longer be called
The Lady of Kingdoms.
6#2 Sam. 24:14I was angry with My people;
#Is. 43:28I have profaned My inheritance,
And given them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy;
#Deut. 28:49, 50On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.
7And you said, ‘I shall be #Rev. 18:7a lady forever,’
So that you did not #Is. 42:25; 46:8take these things to heart,
#Deut. 32:29; Jer. 5:31; Ezek. 7:2, 3Nor remember the latter end of them.
8“Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,
Who dwell securely,
Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
Nor shall I know the loss of children’;
9But these two things shall come to you
#Ps. 73:19; 1 Thess. 5:3; Rev. 18:8In a moment, in one day:
The loss of children, and widowhood.
They shall come upon you in their fullness
Because of the multitude of your sorceries,
For the great abundance of your enchantments.
10“For you have trusted in your wickedness;
You have said, ‘No one #Is. 29:15; Ezek. 8:12; 9:9sees me’;
Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you;
And you have said in your heart,
‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
11Therefore evil shall come upon you;
You shall not know from where it arises.
And trouble shall fall upon you;
You will not be able to put it off.
And #Is. 13:6; Jer. 51:8, 43; Luke 17:27; 1 Thess. 5:3desolation shall come upon you #Is. 29:5suddenly,
Which you shall not know.
12“Stand now with your enchantments
And the multitude of your sorceries,
In which you have labored from your youth—
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you will prevail.
13#Is. 57:10You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;
Let now #Is. 8:19; 44:25; 47:9; Dan. 2:2, 10the astrologers, the stargazers,
And the monthly prognosticators
Stand up and save you
From what shall come upon you.
14Behold, they shall be #Is. 5:24; Nah. 1:10; Mal. 4:1as stubble,
The fire shall #(Is. 10:17); Jer. 51:58burn them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From the power of the flame;
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before!
15Thus shall they be to you
With whom you have labored,
#Rev. 18:11Your merchants from your youth;
They shall wander each one to his quarter.
No one shall save you.
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