# Isaiah 47 ## The Humiliation of Babylon - 1 “Go down and sit in the dust, - O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. - Sit on the ground without a throne, - O Daughter of Chaldea! {[[#^23-47-a|a]]} - For you will no longer be called - tender or delicate. - 2 Take millstones and grind flour; - remove your [[H6777|veil]]; - [[H2834|strip off]] [[H7640|your skirt]], [[H1540|bare]] [[H7785|your thigh]], - and wade through the streams. - 3 [[H6172|Your nakedness]] [[H1540|will be uncovered]] - and [[H2781|your shame]] [[H7200|will be exposed]]. - I will take vengeance; - I will spare no one.” - 4 Our Redeemer — the LORD of Hosts is His name — - is the Holy One of Israel. - 5 “Sit in silence and go into darkness, - O Daughter of Chaldea. - For you will no longer be called - the queen of kingdoms. - 6 I was angry with My people; - I profaned My heritage, - and I placed them under your control. - You showed them no mercy; - even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke. - 7 You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ - You did not take these things to heart - or consider their outcome. - 8 So now hear this, - O lover of luxury [[H3427|who sits securely]], - who says to herself, - ‘I am, and there is none besides me. - I will never be a widow - or know the loss of children.’ - 9 These two things will overtake you in a moment, - in a single day: - loss of children, and widowhood. - They will come upon you in full measure, - in spite of your many [[H3785|sorceries]] - and the potency [[H2267|of your spells]]. - 10 You were secure [[H7451|in your wickedness]]; - you said, ‘No one sees me.’ - Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; - you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ - 11 But disaster will come upon you; - you will not know how to charm it away. - A calamity will befall you - that you will be unable to ward off. - Devastation will happen to you - suddenly and unexpectedly. - 12 [[H5975|So take your stand]] [[H2267|with your spells]] - and with your many [[H3785|sorceries]], - with which [[H3021|you have wearied yourself]] - from your youth. - Perhaps you will succeed; - perhaps you will inspire terror! - 13 You are wearied by your many counselors; - let them come forward now and save you — - your astrologers who observe the stars, - who monthly predict your fate. - 14 Surely they are like stubble; - the fire will burn them up. - They cannot deliver themselves - from the power of the flame. - There will be no coals to warm them - or fire to sit beside. - 15 This is what they are to you — - those with whom you have labored and traded from youth — - each one strays in his own direction; - not one of them can save you. --- ### Footnotes: - 1 a {That is, Babylon; also in **verse 5**} ^23-47-a --- - Previous chapter: [[Isaiah_46]] - Next chapter: [[Isaiah_48]] - TOC: [[TOC_Isaiah]] --- The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible (https://bereanbible.com), BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub (https://biblehub.com), Discovery Bible (https://discoverybible.com), OpenBible.com (https://openbible.com), and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. This text of God's Word has been dedicated to the public domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0). ---