Isaiah 47

1“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.Cross-references: Deut 28:56 · Job 2:8 · Job 2:13 · Ps 18:27 · Ps 89:44 · Ps 137:8 · +23 more

2Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.Cross-references: Gen 24:65 · Ex 11:5 · Judg 16:21 · Job 31:10 · Isa 3:17 · Isa 20:4 · +11 more

3Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Deut 32:41 · Ps 94:1 · Ps 137:8 · Isa 34:1 · Isa 59:17 · +17 more

4Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.Cross-references: Isa 41:14 · Isa 43:3 · Isa 43:14 · Isa 44:6 · Isa 49:26 · Isa 54:5 · +2 more

5“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:9 · Ps 31:17 · Ps 46:10 · Isa 13:10 · Isa 13:19 · Isa 14:4 · +16 more

6I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.Cross-references: Deut 28:50 · 2Sam 24:14 · 2Chr 28:9 · Ps 69:26 · Isa 10:6 · Isa 13:16 · +11 more

7You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.Cross-references: Deut 32:29 · Isa 42:25 · Isa 46:8 · Isa 47:5 · Jer 5:31 · Ezek 7:3 · +5 more

8“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’Cross-references: Judg 18:7 · Judg 18:27 · Ps 10:5 · Isa 21:4 · Isa 22:12 · Isa 32:9 · +19 more

9But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.Cross-references: Ruth 1:5 · Ruth 1:20 · Ps 73:19 · Isa 13:18 · Isa 14:22 · Isa 47:12 · +15 more

10For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’Cross-references: Job 22:13 · Ps 10:11 · Ps 52:7 · Ps 62:9 · Ps 64:5 · Ps 94:7 · +13 more

11Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.Cross-references: Ex 12:29 · Neh 4:11 · Ps 50:22 · Isa 37:36 · Jer 51:39 · Dan 5:25 · +5 more

12“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.Cross-references: Ex 7:11 · Ex 8:7 · Ex 8:18 · Ex 9:11 · Isa 8:19 · Isa 19:3 · +8 more

13You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.Cross-references: Isa 44:25 · Isa 47:15 · Isa 57:10 · Jer 51:58 · Ezek 24:12 · Dan 2:2 · +4 more

14Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.Cross-references: Ps 83:13 · Isa 5:24 · Isa 10:17 · Isa 30:14 · Isa 40:24 · Isa 41:2 · +12 more

15The things that you labored in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you.Cross-references: Isa 56:11 · Jer 51:6 · Ezek 27:12 · Rev 18:11