1 Step down! Sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground, no throne, daughter of the Chaldaeans, for never again will you be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the grinding mill, crush up the meal. Remove your veil, tie up your skirt, bare your legs, cross the rivers.
3 Let your nakedness be displayed and your shame exposed. I am going to take vengeance and no one will stand in my way.
4 Our redeemer, Yahweh Sabaoth is his name, the Holy One of Israel, says:
5 Sit in silence, bury yourself in darkness, daughter of the Chaldaeans, for never again will you be called the mistress of kingdoms.
6 Being angry with my people, I rejected my heritage, surrendering them into your clutches. You showed them no mercy, you made your yoke very heavy on the aged.
7 You thought, 'I shall be a queen for ever.' You did not reflect on these matters or think about the future.
8 Now listen to this, voluptuous woman, lolling at ease and thinking to yourself, 'I am the only one who matters. I shall never be widowed, never know bereavement.'
9 Yet both these things will befall you, suddenly, in one day. Bereavement and widowhood will suddenly befall you in spite of all your witchcraft and the potency of your spells.
10 Confident in your wickedness, you thought, 'No one can see me.' Your wishes and your knowledge were what deluded you, as you thought to yourself, 'I am the only one who matters.'
11 Hence, disaster will befall you which you will not know how to charm away, calamity overtake you which you will not be able to avert, ruination will suddenly befall you, such as you have never known.
12 Keep to your spells then, and all your sorceries, at which you have worked so hard since you were young. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will strike terror!
13 You have had many tiring consultations: let the astrologers come forward now and save you, the star-gazers who announce month by month what will happen to you next.
14 Look, they are like wisps of straw, the fire will burn them up. They will not save their lives from the power of the flame. No embers these, for keeping warm, no fire to sit beside!
15 Such will your wizards prove to be for you, for whom you have worked so hard since you were young; each wandering his own way, none of them can save you.
Versículos relacionados com Isaiah, 47:
Isaiah 47 is a prophecy against Babylon, which represents the arrogance and pride of the empire. The chapter talks about the fall of Babylon and its punishment for its bad deeds. Below are five verses from other Bible books that are related to the topics addressed in Isaiah 47.
Jeremiah 50:31: "Behold, I am against you, arrogant city," says the Lord, the Lord of hosts. "Your time has come, the time I will punish her." This verse is also a prophecy against Babylon and emphasizes God's punishment for arrogance.
Ezekiel 28:2: "Thus says the sovereign, the Lord, For your heart has proudly rose, you said, I am a God; I occupy a throne of God in the heart of the seas. But you are a man, not a God although he considered his heart like that of a God. " This verse is a prophecy against the king of shooting, but emphasizes the danger of arrogance and pride, a theme also present in Isaiah 47.
Proverbs 16:18: "Pride precedes ruin, and arrogance, the fall." This proverb emphasizes that arrogance and pride lead to fall, a theme present in Isaiah 47.
James 4:6: "God is opposed to the proud, but grants grace to the humble." This verse emphasizes the importance of humility and the danger of arrogance, a theme present in Isaiah 47.
1 Peter 5:5: "Similarly, you, who are younger, be subject to the elders. You are all subject to each other and revisit humility, because" God is opposed to the proud, but grants grace to the humble. " . " This verse also emphasizes the importance of humility and submission, a theme present in Isaiah 47.
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