Isaiah:47

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* Come down , and sit in the dust , O virgin , daughter of Babylon ! Sit on the ground without a throne , O daughter of the Chaldaeans ! For thou shalt no longer be called the tender and delicate ! * Take the mill –stones and grind meal ; Raise thy veil , lift up thy train ; Make bare the leg , wade through the streams ! * Thy nakedness shall be uncovered , And thy shame shall be seen . I will take vengeance ; I will make peace with none . * Our Redeemer , Jehovah of hosts is his name , The Holy One of Israel . * Sit thou in silence ; go into darkness , O daughter of the Chaldaeans ! For thou shalt no more be called the mistress of kingdoms . * I was angry with my people ; I profaned my inheritance , And gave them into thy hand ; Thou didst show them no mercy ; Even upon the aged didst thou lay a very grievous yoke . * Thou saidst , "I shall be mistress forever "; So that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart , Nor consider what would be the end of them . * But hear thou this , thou that art given to pleasure ! That sittest in security , And sayest in thy heart , "I am , and there is none besides me ; I shall not be a widow , Nor see myself childless !" * Behold , both these things shall come upon thee suddenly , in one day , Loss of children , and widowhood ; In full measure shall they come upon thee , In spite of thy many sorceries , And the great abundance of thy enchantments . * Thou didst trust in thy wickedness , and saidst , "No one seeth me "; Thy wisdom and thy knowledge have led thee astray ; Thou saidst in thy heart , "I am , and there is none besides me "; * Therefore shall evil come upon thee , of which thou shalt not know the dawn ; And mischief shall fall upon thee , which thou shalt not be able to expiate ; Suddenly shall desolation come upon thee , when thou thinkest not of it . * Persevere now in thy enchantments ; In the multitude of thy sorceries , in which thou hast labored from thy youth ; Perhaps thou mayst be profited by them ! Perhaps thou mayst make thyself feared ! * Art thou wearied with thy many devices ? Let them stand up , then , and save thee , The observers of the heavens , the star –gazers , They that prognosticate at every new moon The things that shall come upon thee ! * Behold , they shall be like stubble ; the fire shall burn them up ; They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame ; Not a coal shall be left of them to warm one , Nor a spark of fire to sit by . * Thus shall it be with them with whom thou hast labored ; Thus with them with whom thou hast trafficked from thy youth ; They shall go every one his own way ; None shall help thee .

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