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73 lines
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# Chapter 47
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1 “Come down and sit in the dust,
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O virgin daughter of Babylon;
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Sit on the ground without a throne,
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O daughter of the Chaldeans!
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For you shall no more be called
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Tender and delicate.
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2 Take the millstones and grind meal.
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Remove your veil,
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Take off the skirt,
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Uncover the thigh,
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Pass through the rivers.
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3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
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Yes, your shame will be seen;
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I will take vengeance,
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And I will not arbitrate with a man.”
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4 As for our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name,
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The Holy One of Israel.
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5 “Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
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O daughter of the Chaldeans;
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For you shall no longer be called
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The Lady of Kingdoms.
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6 I was angry with My people;
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I have profaned My inheritance,
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And given them into your hand.
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You showed them no mercy;
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On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.
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7 And you said, ‘I shall be a lady forever,’
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So that you did not take these things to heart,
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Nor remember the latter end of them.
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8 “Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,
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Who dwell securely,
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Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me;
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I shall not sit as a widow,
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Nor shall I know the loss of children’;
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9 But these two things shall come to you
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In a moment, in one day:
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The loss of children, and widowhood.
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They shall come upon you in their fullness
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Because of the multitude of your sorceries,
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For the great abundance of your enchantments.
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10 “For you have trusted in your wickedness;
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You have said, ‘No one sees me’;
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Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you;
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And you have said in your heart,
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‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
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11 Therefore evil shall come upon you;
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You shall not know from where it arises.
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And trouble shall fall upon you;
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You will not be able to put it off.
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And desolation shall come upon you suddenly,
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Which you shall not know.
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12 “Stand now with your enchantments
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And the multitude of your sorceries,
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In which you have labored from your youth—
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Perhaps you will be able to profit,
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Perhaps you will prevail.
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13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;
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Let now the astrologers, the stargazers,
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And the monthly prognosticators
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Stand up and save you
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From what shall come upon you.
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14 Behold, they shall be as stubble,
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The fire shall burn them;
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They shall not deliver themselves
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From the power of the flame;
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It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
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Nor a fire to sit before!
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15 Thus shall they be to you
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With whom you have labored,
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Your merchants from your youth;
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They shall wander each one to his quarter.
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No one shall save you. |