(KJV) Isaiah 47¹

⥃The Humiliation of Babylon

[1] Come down², and sit in the dust, O virgin³ daughter⁴ of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is⁵] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt⁶ no more be called tender and delicate. [2] Take the millstones⁷, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare⁸ the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. [3] Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take⁹ vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a man. [4] [As for] our redeemer¹⁰, the Lord of hosts [is] his name, the Holy One of Israel. [5] Sit thou silent¹¹, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for¹² thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

[6] [¶]I was wroth¹³ with my people, I have polluted¹⁴ mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst¹⁵ shew them no mercy; upon¹⁶ the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

[7] And thou saidst¹⁷, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that¹⁸ 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] given¹⁹ to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I [am²⁰], and none else beside me; I shall not²¹ sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: [9] But these two²² [things] shall come to thee in a moment²³ in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come²⁴ upon thee in their perfection for the multitude²⁵ of thy sorceries, [and] for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

[10] [¶]For thou hast trusted²⁶ in thy wickedness: thou hast said²⁷, None seeth me. Thy wisdom²⁸ and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee²⁹; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am³⁰], and none else beside me.

[11] [¶]Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know³¹ from whence it riseth³²: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be³³ able to put it off³⁴: 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.³⁵ [13] Thou art wearied³⁶ in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now³⁷ the astrologers, the stargazers³⁸, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from [these things] that shall come upon thee. [14] Behold, they shall³⁹ be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there shall⁴⁰] 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 merchants⁴¹, from thy youth: they shall⁴² wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.