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Isaiah 47

15 aligned verses; 15 with wording or punctuation differences .

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“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.
Come down , and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon ; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Take millstones and grind flour ; remove your veil ; strip off your skirt , bare your thigh , and wade through the streams .
Take the millstones , and grind meal ; remove thy veil , strip off the train , uncover the leg , pass through the rivers .
Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance ; I will spare no one .
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered , yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance , and will spare no man .
Our Redeemer —the LORD of Hosts is His name is the Holy One of Israel.
Our Redeemer , Jehovah of hosts is his name , the Holy One of Israel.
Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.
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.
I was wroth with my people , I profaned mine inheritance , and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
You said , I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome .
And thou saidst , I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart , neither didst remember the latter end thereof .
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 .’
Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart , I am, and there is none else besides me ; I shall not sit as a widow , neither shall I know the loss of children :
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 .
but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day , the loss of children, and widowhood ; in their full measure shall they come upon thee , in the multitude of thy sorceries , and the great abundance of thine enchantments .
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.
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me ; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
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 .
Therefore shall evil come upon thee ; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it away : and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou knowest not .
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!
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
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 .
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers , the star-gazers , the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee .
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 .
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them ; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame : it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before .
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 .
Thus shall the things be unto thee wherein thou hast labored: they that have trafficked with thee from thy youth shall wander every one to his quarter ; there shall be none to save thee .

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