{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/47","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:02:30.415Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":47,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":46,"nextChapter":48,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":15},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.|"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"|Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"|Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your 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:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Therefore evil will come on you; you won't know when it dawns: and mischief will fall on you; you will not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 47 (WEB)","markdown":"[Isaiah 47](https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/47)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/47 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}