Isaiah 47
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"Come a down and b sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of c Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no more be called
Tender and delicate.
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d Take the millstones and grind meal.
Remove your veil,
Take off the skirt,
Uncover the thigh,
Pass through the rivers.
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e Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
Yes, your shame will be seen;
f I will take vengeance,
And I will not arbitrate with a man."
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As for g our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.
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"Sit in h silence, and go into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans;
i For you shall no longer be called
The Lady of Kingdoms.
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j I was angry with My people;
k I have profaned My inheritance,
And given them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy;
l On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.
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And you said, 'I shall be m a lady forever,'
So that you did not n take these things to heart,
o Nor remember the latter end of them.
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"Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,
Who dwell securely,
Who say in your heart,
'I am, and there is no one else besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
Nor shall I know the loss of children';
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But these two things shall come to you
p In a moment, in one day:
The loss of children, and widowhood.
They shall come upon you in their fullness
Because of the multitude of your sorceries,
For the great abundance of your enchantments.
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"For you have trusted in your wickedness;
You have said, 'No one q sees me';
Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you;
And you have said in your heart,
'I am, and there is no one else besides me.'
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Therefore evil shall come upon you;
You shall not know from where it arises.
And trouble shall fall upon you;
You will not be able to put it off.
And r desolation shall come upon you s suddenly,
Which you shall not know.
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"Stand now with your enchantments
And the multitude of your sorceries,
In which you have labored from your youth -
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you will prevail.
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t You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;
Let now u the astrologers, the stargazers,
And the monthly prognosticators
Stand up and save you
From what shall come upon you.
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Behold, they shall be v as stubble,
The fire shall w burn them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From the power of the flame;
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before!
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Thus shall they be to you
With whom you have labored,
x Your merchants from your youth;
They shall wander each one to his quarter.
No one shall save you.
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Jeremiah 48:18
O daughter inhabiting Dibon, Come down from your glory, And sit in thirst; For the plunderer of Moab has come against you, He has destroyed your strongholds.
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Isaiah 3:26
Her gates shall lament and mourn, And she being desolate shall sit on the ground.
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Isaiah 14:18 - 23
All the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house.
Jeremiah 25:12
Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the LORD; 'and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
Jeremiah 50:1
The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
Jeremiah 51:64
Then you shall say, 'Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.' " Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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Exodus 11:5
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the animals.
Jeremiah 25:10
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
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Isaiah 3:17
Therefore the Lord will strike with a scab The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, And the LORD will uncover their secret parts.
Isaiah 20:4
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
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Romans 12:19
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 50:34
Their Redeemer is strong; The LORD of hosts is His name. He will thoroughly plead their case, That He may give rest to the land, And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
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1 Samuel 2:9
He will guard the feet of His saints, But the wicked shall be silent in darkness. "For by strength no man shall prevail.
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Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Daniel 2:37
You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory.
Revelation 17:18
"And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth."
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2 Samuel 24:14
And David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Please let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man.
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Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; I will give Jacob to the curse, And Israel to reproaches.
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Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand.
Deuteronomy 28:50
A nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young.
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Revelation 18:7
"In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.'
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Isaiah 42:25
Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger And the strength of battle; It has set him on fire all around, Yet he did not know; And it burned him, Yet he did not take it to heart.
Isaiah 46:8
Remember this, and show yourselves men; Recall to mind, O you transgressors.
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Deuteronomy 32:29
Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule by their own power; And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?
Ezekiel 7:2
And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: 'An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 7:3
Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
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Psalms 73:19
Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
Revelation 18:8
Therefore her plagues will come in one day - death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
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Isaiah 29:15
Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the LORD, And their works are in the dark; They say, "Who sees us?" and, "Who knows us?
Ezekiel 8:12
Then He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, 'The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.'
Ezekiel 9:9
Then He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!
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Isaiah 13:6
Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Jeremiah 51:8
Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her! Take balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.
Jeremiah 51:43
Her cities are a desolation, A dry land and a wilderness, A land where no one dwells, Through which no son of man passes.
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
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Isaiah 29:5
Moreover the multitude of your foes Shall be like fine dust, And the multitude of the terrible ones Like chaff that passes away; Yes, it shall be in an instant, suddenly.
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Isaiah 57:10
You are wearied in the length of your way; Yet you did not say, 'There is no hope.' You have found the life of your hand; Therefore you were not grieved.
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Isaiah 8:19
And when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?
Isaiah 44:25
Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness.
Isaiah 47:9
But these two things shall come to you In a moment, in one day: The loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness Because of the multitude of your sorceries, For the great abundance of your enchantments.
Daniel 2:2
Then the king gave the command to call the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
Daniel 2:10
The Chaldeans answered the king, and said, "There is not a man on earth who can tell the king's matter; therefore no king, lord, or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean.
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Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Nahum 1:10
For while tangled like thorns, And while drunken like drunkards, They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.
Malachi 4:1
For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up," Says the LORD of hosts, "That will leave them neither root nor branch.
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Isaiah 10:17
So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame; It will burn and devour His thorns and his briers in one day.
Jeremiah 51:58
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, And her high gates shall be burned with fire; The people will labor in vain, And the nations, because of the fire; And they shall be weary.
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Revelation 18:11
And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore:
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