47
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 will
no longer be
called tender and
delicate.
2 Take
the millstones and
grind flour.
Remove your veil,
lift up your
skirt, uncover
your legs,
and wade through
the rivers.
3 Your
nakedness will be
uncovered.
Yes, your shame
will be seen.
I will take
vengeance,
and will spare
no one.”
4 Our
Redeemer, the LORD
of Armies is
his name,
is the Holy
One of Israel.
5 “Sit
in silence, and go
into darkness,
daughter of the
Chaldeans.
For you shall
no longer be
called
the mistress of
kingdoms.
6 I
was angry with
my people.
I profaned my
inheritance
and gave them
into your hand.
You showed them
no mercy.
You laid a
very heavy yoke
on the aged.
7 You said, ‘I
will be a princess
forever,’
so that you didn’t
lay these things
to your heart,
nor did you
remember the results.
8 “Now
therefore hear
this, you who
are given to
pleasures,
who sit securely,
who say in your
heart,
‘I am, and there
is no one
else besides me.
I won’t sit as
a widow,
neither will I
know the loss
of children.’
9 But
these two things
will come to you
in a moment
in one day:
the loss of
children and widowhood.
They will come on
you in their
full measure,
in the multitude
of your sorceries,
and the great
abundance of your
enchantments.
10 For
you have trusted
in your wickedness.
You have said, ‘No
one sees me.’
Your wisdom and
your knowledge has
perverted you.
You have said in
your heart, ‘I am,
and there is
no one else
besides me.’
11 Therefore
disaster will come
on you.
You won’t know
when it dawns.
Mischief will
fall on you.
You won’t be able
to put it away.
Desolation will
come on you
suddenly,
which you don’t
understand.
12 “Stand
now with your
enchantments
and with the
multitude of your
sorceries,
in which you have
labored from your
youth,
as if you might
profit,
as if you might
prevail.
13 You
are wearied in
the multitude of
your counsels.
Now let the
astrologers, the
stargazers, and
the monthly
prognosticators stand
up and save
you from the
things that
will happen to you.
14 Behold,
they are like
stubble.
The fire will
burn them.
They won’t deliver
themselves from
the power of
the flame.
It won’t be a
coal to warm
at
or a fire
to sit by.
15 The
things that you
labored in will
be like this:
those who have
trafficked with
you from your
youth will each
wander in his
own way.
There will be
no one to
save you.