# Isaiah 47

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] “Go down and sit in the dust,
O Virgin Daughter of Babylon.
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O Daughter of Chaldea!
For you will no longer be called
tender or delicate. [2] Take millstones and grind flour;
remove your veil;
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
and wade through the streams. [3] Your nakedness will be uncovered
and your shame will be exposed.
I will take vengeance;
I will spare no one.” [4] Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name—
is the Holy One of Israel. [5] “Sit in silence and go into darkness,
O Daughter of Chaldea.
For you will no longer be called
the queen of kingdoms. [6] I was angry with My people;
I profaned My heritage,
and I placed them under your control.
You showed them no mercy;
even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke. [7] You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’
You did not take these things to heart
or consider their outcome. [8] So now hear this,
O lover of luxury who sits securely,
who says to herself,
‘I am, and there is none besides me.
I will never be a widow
or know the loss of children.’ [9] These two things will overtake you in a moment,
in a single day:
loss of children, and widowhood.
They will come upon you in full measure,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells. [10] You were secure in your wickedness;
you said, ‘No one sees me.’
Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray;
you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ [11] But disaster will come upon you;
you will not know how to charm it away.
A calamity will befall you
that you will be unable to ward off.
Devastation will happen to you
suddenly and unexpectedly. [12] So take your stand with your spells
and with your many sorceries,
with which you have wearied yourself
from your youth.
Perhaps you will succeed;
perhaps you will inspire terror! [13] You are wearied by your many counselors;
let them come forward now and save you—
your astrologers who observe the stars,
who monthly predict your fate. [14] Surely they are like stubble;
the fire will burn them up.
They cannot deliver themselves
from the power of the flame.
There will be no coals to warm them
or fire to sit beside. [15] This is what they are to you—
those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—
each one strays in his own direction;
not one of them can save you.

## Places in this chapter

- **Babylon 1** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/babylon-1
- **Chaldea** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/chaldea

## Each verse

- Isaiah 47:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/1
- Isaiah 47:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/2
- Isaiah 47:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/3
- Isaiah 47:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/4
- Isaiah 47:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/5
- Isaiah 47:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/6
- Isaiah 47:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/7
- Isaiah 47:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/8
- Isaiah 47:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/9
- Isaiah 47:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/10
- Isaiah 47:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/11
- Isaiah 47:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/12
- Isaiah 47:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/13
- Isaiah 47:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/14
- Isaiah 47:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/47/15