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         <div class="label">47</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">An Ode to the Fall of Babylon</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Get down </span><span class="it"><span class="content">from your throne</span></span><span class="content"> and sit in the dust, O&#160;Miss Babylon!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">Sit on the ground where you belong,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">not on a throne, O&#160;Miss Chaldea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">For you will never be described again as &#8216;delicate and dainty.&#8217; </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">47:1</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Or &#8220;pampered and spoiled.&#8221;</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Take off your </span><span class="it"><span class="content">pretty</span></span><span class="content"> veil; </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">47:2</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Or &#8220;your flowing tresses.&#8221;</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="content">take two millstones and grind grain. </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">47:2</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Grinding with millstones was considered the lowest of menial work, usually done by slaves. See</span><span class="ft">  </span>Ex. 11:5<span class="ft">.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="content">Lift your skirt, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your humiliating nakedness will be uncovered,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="content">your shame exposed and seen by all. </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">47:3</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">It is true that Babylon has fallen historically, but we can understand that the &#8220;Babylonian system&#8221; in the church is also falling. Old concepts are crumbling and being swept away (see</span><span class="ft">  </span>2&#160;Cor. 10:3&#8211;6<span class="ft">) as God exposes our impurity. Yet the Redeemer stands ready to restore and revive those with hungry, passionate hearts for God.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="content">I will take vengeance and let no one intercede for you.&#8221; </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">47:3</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew meaning of this clause is uncertain.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.47.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We have a Redeemer. </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Yahweh</span></span><span class="content"> is his name,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.47.4"><span class="content">the Commander of Angel Armies, the Holy One of Israel!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sit silently and go away into the darkness, O&#160;Miss Chaldea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="content">For you will no longer be called the Mistress of Kingdoms.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I became angry with my people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">so I wounded </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">47:6</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Or &#8220;defiled,&#8221; which comes from a root word meaning &#8220;to pierce&#8221; or &#8220;to wound.&#8221;</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content"> my special ones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">I handed them over to you, </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and you took them captive</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">You showed them no mercy;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">you even made the elderly suffer under your heavy yoke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You thought,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">&#8216;I will be the Mistress </span><span class="it"><span class="content">of Kingdoms</span></span><span class="content"> forever.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">But you never considered what you were doing</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">or reflected on how all this would end.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;So now, listen to this, you pampered lover of pleasure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">who sits smug and secure and says in her heart,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">&#8216;I am, and there is no one like me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">I will never have to live as a widow</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">or suffer the loss of my children.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Suddenly both of these losses will overtake you in one day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">for you will lose your husband and your children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">Despite your many magic spells and your powerful sorceries,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">you will be overwhelmed by these tragedies in full measure!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You felt so smug and secure in your wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">You thought, &#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 idea of &#8216;wisdom&#8217; and self-professed &#8216;knowledge&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">has led you astray, saying in your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">&#8216;I am! There is none like me!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="it"><span class="content">An avalanche of</span></span><span class="content"> evil will come upon you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">that no magic spell will be able to avert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">Great disaster is about to fall upon you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">that you will not be able to ward off!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">Total devastation will strike you suddenly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">It will happen so swiftly you won&#8217;t even see it coming!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;So go ahead&#8212;keep trusting in your sorceries</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">and the witchcraft you&#8217;ve practiced since your youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">Perhaps you might succeed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">Perhaps you&#8217;ll scare away </span><span class="it"><span class="content">your impending doom</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You must be fatigued with so much counsel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">Let the stargazers and astrologers take their stand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">See if they can help you now!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">Let them make their monthly predictions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">Maybe they can reveal what</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">is about to come upon you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Look at them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">They&#8217;re nothing but straw for the consuming fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">They can&#8217;t even rescue themselves from the power of the flame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">And this is not some cozy fire</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">that you sit beside to keep yourself warm!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These traders, with whom you have dealt since your youth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">will do nothing but disappoint you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">Each has wandered off to his own way&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">there is no one left to rescue you!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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“Get down from your throne and sit in the dust, O Miss Babylon!
Sit on the ground where you belong,
not on a throne, O Miss Chaldea!
For you will never be described again as ‘delicate and dainty.’
Take off your pretty veil;
take two millstones and grind grain.
Lift your skirt, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.
Your humiliating nakedness will be uncovered,
your shame exposed and seen by all.
I will take vengeance and let no one intercede for you.”

We have a Redeemer. YAHWEH is his name,
the Commander of Angel Armies, the Holy One of Israel!

“Sit silently and go away into the darkness, O Miss Chaldea!
For you will no longer be called the Mistress of Kingdoms.
I became angry with my people,
so I wounded my special ones.
I handed them over to you, and you took them captive.
You showed them no mercy;
you even made the elderly suffer under your heavy yoke.
You thought,
‘I will be the Mistress of Kingdoms forever.’
But you never considered what you were doing
or reflected on how all this would end.

“So now, listen to this, you pampered lover of pleasure,
who sits smug and secure and says in her heart,
‘I am, and there is no one like me!
I will never have to live as a widow
or suffer the loss of my children.’
Suddenly both of these losses will overtake you in one day,
for you will lose your husband and your children.
Despite your many magic spells and your powerful sorceries,
you will be overwhelmed by these tragedies in full measure!
You felt so smug and secure in your wickedness.
You thought, ‘No one sees me.’
Your idea of ‘wisdom’ and self-professed ‘knowledge’
has led you astray, saying in your heart,
‘I am! There is none like me!’
An avalanche of evil will come upon you
that no magic spell will be able to avert.
Great disaster is about to fall upon you
that you will not be able to ward off!
Total devastation will strike you suddenly.
It will happen so swiftly you won’t even see it coming!

“So go ahead—keep trusting in your sorceries
and the witchcraft you’ve practiced since your youth.
Perhaps you might succeed!
Perhaps you’ll scare away your impending doom!
You must be fatigued with so much counsel!
Let the stargazers and astrologers take their stand.
See if they can help you now!
Let them make their monthly predictions.
Maybe they can reveal what
is about to come upon you.
Look at them!
They’re nothing but straw for the consuming fire.
They can’t even rescue themselves from the power of the flame.
And this is not some cozy fire
that you sit beside to keep yourself warm!
These traders, with whom you have dealt since your youth,
will do nothing but disappoint you.
Each has wandered off to his own way—
there is no one left to rescue you!”

සවන් දෙන්න Isaiah 47