Isaiah 47
47
The Fall of Babylon
1“Go down and sit in the dust, # Is 3:26; Jr 48:18
Virgin Daughter Babylon. # Ps 137:8; Jr 50:42; 51:33; Zch 2:7
Sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter Chaldea!
For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.
2Take millstones and grind meal; # Ex 11:5; Jb 31:10; Mt 24:41
remove your veil,
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
wade through the streams.
3Your nakedness will be uncovered,
and your shame will be exposed. # Jr 13:26; Lm 1:8; Ezk 16:37; Nah 3:5
I will take vengeance;
I will spare no one. # Hb obscure
4The Holy One of Israel is our Redeemer; # Is 41:14; 43:14
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
5“Daughter Chaldea,
sit in silence # Is 23:2; Jr 8:14; Lm 2:10; 3:2,28 and go into darkness.
For you will no longer be called mistress of kingdoms.
6I was angry with My people;
I profaned My possession,
and I placed them under your control.
You showed them no mercy;
you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
7You said, ‘I will be the mistress forever.’
You did not take these things to heart
or think about their outcome.
8“So now hear this, lover of luxury,
who sits securely, # Zph 2:15
who says to herself,
‘I exist, and there is no one else.
I will never be a widow
or know the loss of children.’ # Rv 18:7
9These two things will happen to you
suddenly, in one day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will happen to you in their entirety,
in spite of your many sorceries # Is 47:13; Nah 3:4; Rv 18:23
and the potency of your spells.
10You were secure in your wickedness;
you said, ‘No one sees me.’ # Ps 139:3,11
Your wisdom and knowledge
led you astray.
You said to yourself,
‘I exist, and there is no one else.’
11But disaster will happen to you;
you will not know how to avert it.
And it will fall on you,
but you will be unable to ward it off. # Or to atone for it
Devastation will happen to you suddenly
and unexpectedly. # Is 13:6; Jr 51:8,43; Lk 17:27; 1Th 5:3
12So take your stand with your spells
and your many sorceries,
which you have wearied yourself with from your youth.
Perhaps you will be able to succeed;
perhaps you will inspire terror!
13You are worn out with your many consultations.
So let them stand and save you —
the astrologers, # Lit dividers of the heavens who observe the stars, # Is 8:19; 44:25; 47:9; Dn 2:2,10
who predict monthly
what will happen to you.
14Look, they are like stubble; # Is 5:24; Nah 1:10; Mal 4:1
fire burns them up. # Is 10:17; Jr 51:30-32,58
They cannot deliver themselves
from the power # Lit hand of the flame.
This is not a coal for warming themselves,
or a fire to sit beside!
15This is what they are to you —
those who have wearied you
and have traded with you from your youth —
each wanders on his own way;
no one can save you.
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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 47
47
1“Come down and sit in the dust, O maiden daughter of Baḇel. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Kasdim! For no more do they call you tender and delicate.
2“Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up the skirt, uncover the leg, pass through rivers.
3“Let your nakedness be uncovered, let your shame also be exposed. I take vengeance, and meet no man.”
4Our Redeemer, יהוה of hosts is His Name, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl.
5“Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of Kasdim! For no more do they call you Mistress of Reigns.
6“I was wroth with My people, I have profaned My inheritance and I gave them into your hand. You showed them no compassion, you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
7“And you said, ‘I am mistress forever,’ so that you did not take these matters to heart, and did not remember the latter end of them.
8“And now, hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who dwells complacently, who says in your heart, ‘I am, and there is none but me. I do not sit as a widow, nor do I know the loss of children.’
9“Both of these come to you suddenly, in one day: the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in completeness, because of your many witchcrafts, for your numerous great potent spells.
10“And you have trusted in your evil, you have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge have led you astray. And you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is none but me.’
11“But evil shall come upon you, you not knowing from where it arises, and trouble fall upon you, you being unable to put it off, and ruin come upon you suddenly, which you know not.
12“Stand now with your potent spells and your many witchcrafts, in which you have laboured from your youth, if so be you are able to profit, if so be you find strength.
13“You are exhausted by your many counsels; let the astrologers, the stargazers, and those who prognosticate by the new moons stand up and save you from what is coming upon you.
14“See, they shall be as stubble, fire shall burn them, they do not deliver themselves from the power of the flame, there is not a coal to be warmed by, nor a fire to sit before it!
15“So they shall be to you with whom you have laboured, your merchants from your youth. They shall wander, each one his own way, there is none to save you.
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