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         <div class="label">46</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gods of Babylon</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.46.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.46.1"><span class="content">their idols are borne by beasts of burden.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">are but beasts and cattle</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.46.1"><span class="content">The images that are carried about are burdensome,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.46.1"><span class="content">a burden for the weary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.46.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.46.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They stoop and bow down together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.46.2"><span class="content">unable to rescue the burden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.46.2"><span class="content">they themselves go off into captivity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.46.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.46.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.46.3"><span class="content">all the remnant of the people of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.46.3"><span class="content">you whom I have upheld since your birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.46.3"><span class="content">and have carried since you were born.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.46.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.46.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Even to your old age and gray hairs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.46.4"><span class="content">I am he, I am he who will sustain you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.46.4"><span class="content">I have made you and I will carry you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.46.4"><span class="content">I will sustain you and I will rescue you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.46.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.46.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;With whom will you compare me or count me equal?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.46.5"><span class="content">To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.46.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.46.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Some pour out gold from their bags</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.46.6"><span class="content">and weigh out silver on the scales;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.46.6"><span class="content">they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.46.6"><span class="content">and they bow down and worship it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.46.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They lift it to their shoulders and carry it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="content">they set it up in its place, and there it stands.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="content">From that spot it cannot move.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="content">Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="content">it cannot save them from their troubles.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.46.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember this, keep it in mind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.46.8"><span class="content">take it to heart, you rebels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.46.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.46.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Remember the former things, those of long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.46.9"><span class="content">I am God, and there is no other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.46.9"><span class="content">I am God, and there is none like me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.46.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.46.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I make known the end from the beginning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.46.10"><span class="content">from ancient times, what is still to come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.46.10"><span class="content">I say, &#8216;My purpose will stand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.46.10"><span class="content">and I will do all that I please.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.46.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.46.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">From the east I summon a bird of prey;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.46.11"><span class="content">from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.46.11"><span class="content">What I have said, that I will bring about;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.46.11"><span class="content">what I have planned, that I will do.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.46.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.46.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.46.12"><span class="content">you who are now far from my righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.46.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.46.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am bringing my righteousness near,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.46.13"><span class="content">it is not far away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.46.13"><span class="content">and my salvation will not be delayed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.46.13"><span class="content">I will grant salvation to Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.46.13"><span class="content">my splendor to Israel.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">47</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Fall of Babylon</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go down, sit in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">Virgin Daughter Babylon;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">sit on the ground without a throne,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">queen city of the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">47:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 5</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">No more will you be called</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">tender or delicate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Take millstones and grind flour;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="content">take off your veil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="content">Lift up your skirts, bare your legs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="content">and wade through the streams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your nakedness will be exposed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="content">and your shame uncovered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="content">I will take vengeance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="content">I will spare no one.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.47.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Our Redeemer&#8212;the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.47.4"><span class="content">is the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.47.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sit in silence, go into darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="content">queen city of the Babylonians;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="content">no more will you be called</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="content">queen of kingdoms.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I was angry with my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">and desecrated my inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">I gave them into your hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">and you showed them no mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">Even on the aged</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">you laid a very heavy yoke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You said, &#8216;I am forever&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">the eternal queen!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">But you did not consider these things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">or reflect on what might happen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">lounging in your security</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">and saying to yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">&#8216;I am, and there is none besides me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">I will never be a widow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">or suffer the loss of children.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Both of these will overtake you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">in a moment, on a single day:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">loss of children and widowhood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">They will come upon you in full measure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">in spite of your many sorceries</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">and all your potent spells.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You have trusted in your wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">and have said, &#8216;No one sees me.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">when you say to yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">&#8216;I am, and there is none besides me.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Disaster will come upon you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">and you will not know how to conjure it away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">A calamity will fall upon you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">that you cannot ward off with a ransom;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">a catastrophe you cannot foresee</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">will suddenly come upon you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Keep on, then, with your magic spells</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">and with your many sorceries,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">which you have labored at since childhood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">Perhaps you will succeed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">perhaps you will cause terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">Let your astrologers come forward,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">those stargazers who make predictions month by month,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">let them save you from what is coming upon you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Surely they are like stubble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">the fire will burn them up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">They cannot even save themselves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">from the power of the flame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">These are not coals for warmth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">this is not a fire to sit by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">That is all they are to you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">these you have dealt with</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">and labored with since childhood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">All of them go on in their error;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">there is not one that can save you.</span></span></div>
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