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World English Bible

Isaiah 47 (WEBP)

[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.
[2] Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.
[3] Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”
[4] Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.
[5] “Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.
[6] I 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.
[7] You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
[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.’
[9] But 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.
[10] For 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.’
[11] Therefore 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.
[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.
[13] You 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.
[14] Behold, 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.
[15] The 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.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Isaiah 47 (KJVS)

[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.

Young’s Literal Translation

Isaiah 47 (YLT)

[1] Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, ‘O tender and delicate one.’
[2] Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
[3] Revealed is thy nakedness, yea, seen is thy reproach, Vengeance I take, and I meet not a man.
[4] Our redeemer is Jehovah of Hosts, His name is the Holy One of Israel.
[5] Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, ‘Mistress of kingdoms.’
[6] I have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke very heavy,
[7] And thou sayest, ‘To the age I am mistress,’ While thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not remembered the latter end of it.
[8] And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently- Who is saying in her heart, ‘I am, and none else, I sit not a widow, nor know bereavement.’
[9] And come in to thee do these two things, In a moment, in one day, childlessness and widowhood, According to their perfection they have come upon thee, In the multitude of thy sorceries, In the exceeding might of thy charms.
[10] And thou art confident in thy wickedness, Thou hast said, ‘There is none seeing me,’ Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, It is turning thee back, And thou sayest in thy heart, ‘I am, and none else.’
[11] And come in on thee hath evil, Thou knowest not its rising, And fall on thee doth mischief, Thou art not able to pacify it, And come on thee suddenly doth desolation, Thou knowest not.
[12] Stand, I pray thee, in thy charms, And in the multitude of thy sorceries, In which thou hast laboured from thy youth, It may be thou art able to profit, It may be thou dost terrify!
[13] Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, Stand up, I pray thee, and save thee, Let the charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months, From those things that come on thee!
[14] Lo, they have been as stubble! Fire hath burned them, They deliver not themselves from the power of the flame, There is not a coal to warm them, a light to sit before it.
[15] So have they been to thee with whom thou hast laboured, Thy merchants from thy youth, Each to his passage they have wandered, Thy saviour is not!