“1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit
on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for
thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstones,
and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh,
pass over the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame
shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a
man. 4 [As for] 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 wroth with my people, I have polluted mine
inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no
mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.”
“7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that thou didst
not lay these [things] to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter
end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, [thou that art] given to
pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I [am],
and none else beside me; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I
know the loss of children: 9 But these two [things] shall come to thee
in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall
come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries,
[and] for the great abundance of thine enchantments. 10 For thou hast
trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and
thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine
heart, I [am], and none else beside me. 11 Therefore shall evil come
upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall
fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation
shall come upon thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know. 12 Stand now
with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries,
wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able
to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the
multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the
monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from [these things]
that shall come upon thee. 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire
shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the
flame: [there shall] not [be] a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit
before it. 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured,
[even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his
quarter; none shall save thee.” (Isaiah 47:1-15 AV)