Isaiah 47

1Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. 2Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 3your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet a man. 4our redeemer, the Yahuah of hosts his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. 6I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into your hand: you didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast you very heavily laid your yoke. 7And you saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: that you didst not lay these to your heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8Therefore hear now this, given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in your heart, I , and none else beside me; I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9But these two shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon you in their perfection for the multitude of your sorceries, for the great abundance of your enchantments. 10For you hast trusted in your wickedness: you hast said, None seeth me. your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you hast said in your heart, I , and none else beside me. 11Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from from where it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, you shall not know. 12Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein you hast laboured from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you mayest prevail. 13you art wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from that shall come upon you. 14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: not a coal to warm at, fire to sit before it. 15Thus shall they be unto you with whom you hast laboured, your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save you.