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    Isaiah 47

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    Babylon promises never to be a widow, and meets widowhood and the loss of children together, suddenly, in the very next breath.

    The throne is taken awayvv. 1–6

    Babylon is given a remarkably undignified itinerary: down from the throne, into the dust, then to the millstones. The veil and skirt go too, and the streams are crossed in a state of exposure. Behind this humiliation stands the LORD of Hosts, while the people once placed under Babylon’s control—elderly included—have been given no mercy.

    The queen and her advisersvv. 7–15

    Babylon has treated queenship as a permanent arrangement, declaring that widowhood and the loss of children belong to other households. Instead, both arrive in a single day. Its spells, sorceries, wisdom, and knowledge are summoned with a jaunty “perhaps”; the astrologers are called forward as if a crowded advisory bench might yet save the throne. They end as stubble in the fire, with not even a coal left for sitting beside or warming the hands. Then each former associate wanders off in his own direction, and none can save Babylon.

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    1. Isa 47:1“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

    2. Isa 47:2Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

    3. Isa 47:3Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

    4. Isa 47:4Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name—is the Holy One of Israel.

    5. Isa 47:5“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.

    6. Isa 47:6I 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. Isa 47:7You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

    8. Isa 47:8So 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. Isa 47:9These 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. Isa 47:10You 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. Isa 47:11But 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. Isa 47:12So 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. Isa 47:13You 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. Isa 47:14Surely 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. Isa 47:15This 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.’’

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    • 10Isaiah 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
    • 10Romans 1:22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
    • 10Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
    • 62 Chronicles 28:9But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
    • 6Zechariah 1:15but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
    • 6Deuteronomy 28:50a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
    • 10Psalms 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
    • 1Psalms 137:8O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
    • 1Jeremiah 51:33For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
    • 6Obadiah 1:10Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
    • 1Jeremiah 50:42They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
    • 1Zechariah 2:7“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”
    • 6James 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
    • 8Isaiah 32:9Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
    • 10Ezekiel 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
    • 13Isaiah 44:25who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

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