in Zion for Israel my glory.
047:001 Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon;
sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans:
for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
047:002 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil,
strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
047:003 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen:
I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.
047:004 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
047:005 Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans;
for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.
047:006 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance,
and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy;
on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.
047:007 You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay
these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter
end of it.
047:008 Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,
who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there
is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow,
neither shall I know the loss of children:
047:009 but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day,
the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure
shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries,
and the great abundance of your enchantments.
047:010 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me;
your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you,
and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none
else besides me.
047:011 Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning
of it: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able
to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly,
which you don't know.
047:012 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude
of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth;
if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
047:013 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now
the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators,
stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.
047:014 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
047:015 Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored:
those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander
everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
048:001 Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name
of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah;
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