Isaiah:47

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* "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 . * Take the millstones , and grind meal ; remove your veil , strip off the train , uncover the leg , pass through the rivers . * Your nakedness shall be uncovered , yes , your shame shall be seen : I will take vengeance , and will spare no man ." * Our Redeemer , Yahweh of Armies is his name , the Holy One of Israel . * "Sit in silence , and go into darkness , daughter of the Chaldeans ; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms . * I was angry with my people , I profaned my inheritance , and gave them into your hand : you showed them no mercy ; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke . * You said , 'I shall be a mistress forever ;' so that you did not lay these things to your heart , nor did you remember the latter end of it . * "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 :' * 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 . * For you have trusted in your wickedness ; you have said , No one 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 . * Therefore evil will come on you ; you won 't know when it dawns : and mischief will fall on you ; you will not be able to put it away : and desolation shall come on you suddenly , which you don 't know . * "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 . * You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels : let now the astrologers , the stargazers , the monthly prognosticators , stand up , and save you from the things that shall come on you . * 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 . * 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 .

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