The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 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, Yahweh 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 laida very heavy yoke onthe 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 youhave trust edin 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 labored 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 laboredin 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.