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God’s Message to Babylon

47 “Fall down and sit in the dirt, Virgin Daughter Babylon.
    You have no throne, so sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans.[a]
You are not the ruler now.
    You are no longer the beautiful young princess that people said you were.
Get the millstones ready
    and grind the grain into flour.
Take off your veil and fancy clothes.
    Lift your skirt and get ready to cross the rivers.[b]
Men will see your naked body
    and use you for sex.
I will make you pay for the bad things you did,
    and I will not let anyone help you.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:1 Virgin Daughter Babylon, daughter of the Chaldeans Names for the city of Babylon.
  2. Isaiah 47:2 rivers The Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Babylon was between these two rivers.

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