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CHAPTER 47.
COME down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the
ground: there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt no
more be called delicate and tender.
2 Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame,
strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
3 Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame
shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.
4 Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy
One of Israel.
5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O
daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of
kingdoms.
6 I was angry with my people, I have polluted my
inheritance, and have given them into thy bend: thou hast shewn no mercy to
them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.
7 And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou
hast not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy
latter end.
8 And now hear these things, thou that art delicate,
and dwellest confidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and there is none
else besides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know barrenness.
9 These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one
day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the
multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.
10 And thou best trusted in thy wickedness, and hast
said: There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and thy knowledge, this hath
deceived thee. And thou best said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is
no other.
11 Evil shall come upon thee, and then shalt not know
the rising thereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon thee, which thou
canst not keep off: misery shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not
know.
12 Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the
multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so
be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.
13 Thou hast failed in the multitude or thy counsels:
let now the astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars, and
counted the months, that from them they might tell the things that shall come
to thee.
14 Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them,
they shall not deliver them- selves from the power of the dames: there are no
coals wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat.
15 Such are all the things become to thee, in which
thou best laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his
own way, there is none that can save thee.
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