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Isaiah 47
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Isaiah 47 . 1
1 “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.CIsaiah 47:1-7 Isaiah 47:1-10TOSKIsaiah 47:1
Isaiah 47 . 2
2 Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.CIsaiah 47:1-10 Isaiah 47:1-7TOSKIsaiah 47:2
Isaiah 47 . 3
3 Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”CIsaiah 47:1-10 Isaiah 47:1-7TOSKIsaiah 47:3
Isaiah 47 . 4
4 Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name—is the Holy One of Israel.CIsaiah 47:1-10 Isaiah 47:1-7TOSKIsaiah 47:4
Isaiah 47 . 5
5 “Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.CIsaiah 47:1-10 Isaiah 47:1-7TOSKIsaiah 47:5
Isaiah 47 . 6
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.CIsaiah 47:1-10 Isaiah 47:1-7TOSKIsaiah 47:6
Isaiah 47 . 7
7 You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.CIsaiah 47:1-10 Isaiah 47:1-7TOSKIsaiah 47:7
Isaiah 47 . 8
8 So now hear this, O lover of luxury 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.’CIsaiah 47:1-10 Isaiah 47:8-10TOSKIsaiah 47:8
Isaiah 47 . 9
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 sorceries and the potency of your spells.CIsaiah 47:1-10 Isaiah 47:8-10TOSKIsaiah 47:9
Isaiah 47 . 10
10 You were secure 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.’CIsaiah 47:1-10 Isaiah 47:8-10TOSKIsaiah 47:10
Isaiah 47 . 11
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.TOSKIsaiah 47:11
Isaiah 47 . 12
12 So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!TOSKIsaiah 47:12
Isaiah 47 . 13
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.TOSKIsaiah 47:13
Isaiah 47 . 14
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.TOSKIsaiah 47:14
Isaiah 47 . 15
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.IPActs 4:12TOSKIsaiah 47:15