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The Prophecy
of Isaias 47
Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon,
sit on the ground: there is no throne for the daughter
of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt no more be called delicate
and tender.
Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame,
strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the
rivers.
Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall
be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist
me.
Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy
One of Israel.
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter
of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the
lady of kingdoms.
I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance,
and have given them into thy bend: thou hast shewn no
mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke
exceeding heavy.
And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou
hast not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast
thou remembered thy latter end.
And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and
dwellest confidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am,
and there is none else besides me: I shall not sit as
a widow, and I shall not know barrenness.
These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one
day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon
thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and
for the great hardness of thy enchanters.
And thou best trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said:
There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and thy knowledge,
this hath deceived thee. And thou best said in thy heart:
I am, and besides me there is no other.
Evil shall come upon thee, and then shalt not know the
rising thereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon
thee, which thou canst not keep off: misery shall come
upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude
of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy
youth, if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if
thou mayst become stronger.
Thou hast failed in the multitude or thy counsels: let
now the astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed
at the stars, and counted the months, that from them
they might tell the things that shall come to thee.
Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they
shall not deliver them- selves from the power of the
dames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed,
nor fire, that they may sit thereat.
Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou
best laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one
hath erred in his own way, there is none that can save
thee. |