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Step down! Sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground, no throne, daughter of the Chaldaeans, for never again will you be called tender and delicate. (Isaiah 47, 1)
Sit in silence, bury yourself in darkness, daughter of the Chaldaeans, for never again will you be called the mistress of kingdoms. (Isaiah 47, 5)
You thought, 'I shall be a queen for ever.' You did not reflect on these matters or think about the future. (Isaiah 47, 7)
Keep to your spells then, and all your sorceries, at which you have worked so hard since you were young. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will strike terror! (Isaiah 47, 12)
You have had many tiring consultations: let the astrologers come forward now and save you, the star-gazers who announce month by month what will happen to you next. (Isaiah 47, 13)
Look, they are like wisps of straw, the fire will burn them up. They will not save their lives from the power of the flame. No embers these, for keeping warm, no fire to sit beside! (Isaiah 47, 14)
Such will your wizards prove to be for you, for whom you have worked so hard since you were young; each wandering his own way, none of them can save you. (Isaiah 47, 15)
Listen to this, House of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and issued from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Yahweh and invoke the God of Israel, though not in good faith or uprightness; (Isaiah 48, 1)
for they call themselves after the holy city and rely on the God of Israel, Yahweh Sabaoth is his name. (Isaiah 48, 2)
For I knew you to be obstinate, your neck an iron sinew and your forehead bronze. (Isaiah 48, 4)
As I told you about it long before, before it happened I revealed it to you, so that you could not say, 'My statue did it, my idol, my metal image, ordained this.' (Isaiah 48, 5)
No, you have not heard, you have not known, for a long time your ear has not been attentive, for I knew how treacherous you were; you have been called a rebel since the womb. (Isaiah 48, 8)
