Chapter 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 laboured 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 laboured 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 .