Is this your city of revelry,(A)
    the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
    to settle in far-off lands?

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Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

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you town so full of commotion,
    you city of tumult(A) and revelry?(B)
Your slain(C) were not killed by the sword,(D)
    nor did they die in battle.

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Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

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The Fall of Babylon

47 “Go down, sit in the dust,(A)
    Virgin Daughter(B) Babylon;
sit on the ground without a throne,
    queen city of the Babylonians.[a](C)
No more will you be called
    tender or delicate.(D)
Take millstones(E) and grind(F) flour;
    take off your veil.(G)
Lift up your skirts,(H) bare your legs,
    and wade through the streams.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:1 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 5

47 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

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13 and for the land of my people,
    a land overgrown with thorns and briers(A)
yes, mourn(B) for all houses of merriment
    and for this city of revelry.(C)

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13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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I have seen slaves on horseback,
    while princes go on foot like slaves.(A)

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I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

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29 The boundary then turned back toward Ramah(A) and went to the fortified city of Tyre,(B) turned toward Hosah and came out at the Mediterranean Sea(C) in the region of Akzib,(D)

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29 And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:

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