Isaiah 47:1-3

The Humiliation of Babylon

1 e Come down and sit in the dust,
O virgin f daughter of Babylon;
g sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of h the Chaldeans!
i For you shall no more be called
tender and delicate.
 2 Take the millstones and j grind flour,
k put off your veil,
strip off your robe, uncover your legs,
pass through the rivers.
 3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
and your disgrace shall be seen.
I will take vengeance,
and I will spare no one.

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 43:14
    Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I send to Babylon and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 137:8
    O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:26
    And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground.
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:13
    Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.
    Isaiah 48:14
    Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things? The Lord loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:5
    Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
    Isaiah 13:19
    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
  6. Cross References
    Judges 16:21
    And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.
    Matthew 24:41
    Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left.
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 20:4
    So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
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