Isaiah 47

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Mourning for Babylon

47 “^(A)Come down and sit in the dust,
^(B)Virgin ^(C)daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you will no longer be called ^(D)tender and delicate.
²Take the ^(E)millstones and ^(F)grind flour.
Remove your ^(G)veil, ^(H)strip off the skirt,
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
³Your ^(I)nakedness will be uncovered,
Your shame will also be exposed;
I will ^(J)take vengeance and will not spare anyone.”
⁴Our ^(K)Redeemer, the Lord of armies is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.
⁵“^(L)Sit silently, and go into ^(M)darkness,
Daughter of the Chaldeans;
For you will no longer be called
The ^(N)queen of ^(O)kingdoms.
⁶I was angry with My people,
I profaned My heritage
And handed them over to you.
You did not show mercy to them,
On the ^(P)aged you made your yoke very heavy.
⁷Yet you said, ‘I will be a ^(Q)queen forever.’
These things you did not ^(R)consider
Nor remember the ^(S)outcome of ^[a]them.

⁸“Now, then, hear this, you ^(T)luxuriant one,
Who ^(U)lives securely,
Who says in her heart,
‘^(V)I am, and there is no one besides me.
I will ^(W)not sit as a widow,
Nor know the loss of children.’
⁹But these ^(X)two things will come on you ^(Y)suddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many ^(Z)sorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.
¹⁰You felt ^(AA)secure in your wickedness and said,
‘^(AB)No one sees me,’
Your ^(AC)wisdom and your knowledge, ^[b]they have led you astray;
For you have said in your heart,
‘^(AD)I am, and there is no one besides me.’
¹¹But ^(AE)evil will come on you
Which you will not know how to charm away;
And disaster will fall on you
For which you cannot atone;
And ^(AF)destruction about which you do not know
Will come on you ^(AG)suddenly.

¹²“Persist now in your ^(AH)spells
And in your many sorceries
With which you have labored from your youth;
Perhaps you will be able to benefit,
Perhaps you may cause trembling.
¹³You are ^(AI)wearied with your many counsels;
Let now the ^(AJ)astrologers,
Those who prophesy by the stars,
Those who predict by the new moons,
Stand up and ^(AK)save you from what will come upon you.
¹⁴Behold, they have become ^(AL)like stubble,
^(AM)Fire burns them;
They cannot save themselves from the power of the flame;
There will be ^(AN)no coal to warm by
Nor a fire to sit before!
¹⁵So have those become to you with whom you have labored,
Those who have ^(AO)done business with you from your youth;
Each has wandered in his own ^[c]way;
There is ^(AP)no one to save you.

Footnotes

Isaiah 47:7 Lit it
Isaiah 47:10 Lit it has
Isaiah 47:15 Lit side, region

Revelation 17

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The Doom of Babylon

17 ^(A)Then one of the ^(B)seven angels who had the ^(C)seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you ^(D)the judgment of the ^(E)great prostitute who ^(F)sits on many waters, ²with whom ^(G)the kings of the earth committed acts of sexual immorality, and ^(H)those who live on the earth ^(I)became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.” ³And ^(J)he carried me away ^[a]^(K)in the Spirit ^(L)into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a ^(M)scarlet beast, full of ^(N)blasphemous names, having ^(O)seven heads and ten horns. ⁴The woman ^(P)was clothed in purple and scarlet, and ^[b]adorned with gold, precious ^[c]stones, and pearls, holding in her hand ^(Q)a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her sexual immorality, ⁵and on her forehead a name was written, ^[d]a ^(R)mystery: “^(S)BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF ^(T)THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” ⁶And I saw the woman drunk with ^(U)the blood of the ^[e]saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered ^[f]greatly. ⁷And the angel said to me, “Why ^[g]do you wonder? I will tell you the ^(V)mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the ^(W)seven heads and the ten horns.

⁸“^(X)The beast that you saw ^(Y)was, and is not, and is about to ^(Z)come up out of the ^(AA)abyss and ^[h]^(AB)go to destruction. And ^(AC)those who live on the earth, ^(AD)whose names have not been written in the book of life ^(AE)from the foundation of the world, will ^(AF)wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and will ^[i]come. ⁹^(AG)Here is the mind which has wisdom. The ^(AH)seven heads are seven mountains upon which the woman sits, ¹⁰and they are seven ^(AI)kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while. ¹¹The beast which ^(AJ)was, and is not, is himself also an eighth and is one of the seven, and he ^(AK)goes to destruction. ¹²The ^(AL)ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast ^(AM)for one hour. ¹³These have ^(AN)one ^[j]purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.

Victory for the Lamb

¹⁴These will wage ^(AO)war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will ^(AP)overcome them because He is ^(AQ)Lord of lords and ^(AR)King of kings; and ^(AS)those who are with Him are the ^(AT)called and chosen and faithful.”

¹⁵And he *said to me, “The ^(AU)waters which you saw where the prostitute sits are ^(AV)peoples and multitudes, and nations and languages. ¹⁶And the ^(AW)ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her ^(AX)desolate and ^(AY)naked, and will ^(AZ)eat her flesh and will ^(BA)burn her up with fire. ¹⁷For ^(BB)God has put it in their hearts to execute His ^[k]purpose ^[l]by ^(BC)having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the ^(BD)words of God will be fulfilled. ¹⁸The woman whom you saw is ^(BE)the great city, which ^[m]reigns over the kings of the earth.”