1 Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. WEB — Isaiah 47:1
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. WEB — Isaiah 47:2
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man. WEB — Isaiah 47:3
4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. WEB — Isaiah 47:4
5 Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms. WEB — Isaiah 47:5
6 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke. WEB — Isaiah 47:6
7 You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it. WEB — Isaiah 47:7
8 Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: WEB — Isaiah 47:8
9 but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments. WEB — Isaiah 47:9
10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me. WEB — Isaiah 47:10
11 Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning of it: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know. WEB — Isaiah 47:11
12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. WEB — Isaiah 47:12
13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you. WEB — Isaiah 47:13
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. WEB — Isaiah 47:14
15 Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you. WEB — Isaiah 47:15