11 Tremble, you women (A)who are at ease,
    shudder, you complacent ones;
(B)strip, and make yourselves bare,
    (C)and tie sackcloth around your waist.

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(A)You have lived on the earth in luxury and (B)in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in (C)a day of slaughter.

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27 And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were (A)mourning and lamenting for him. 28 But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For behold, (B)the days are coming when they will say, (C)‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 (D)Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’

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(A)For this I will lament and wail;
    I will go (B)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation (C)like the jackals,
    and mourning (D)like the ostriches.
(E)For her wound is incurable,
    and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
    to Jerusalem.

10 (F)Tell it not in (G)Gath;
    weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
    (H)roll yourselves in the dust.
11 Pass on your way,
    inhabitants of Shaphir,
    (I)in nakedness and shame;
the inhabitants of Zaanan
    do not come out;
the lamentation of Beth-ezel
    shall take away from you its standing place.

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lest (A)I strip her naked
    and make her as (B)in the day she was born,
and (C)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.

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“Wail, O (A)Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
    Cry out, O daughters of (B)Rabbah!
(C)Put on sackcloth,
    lament, and run to and fro among the hedges!
For (D)Milcom shall go into exile,
    (E)with his priests and his officials.

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26 O daughter of my people, (A)put on sackcloth,
    and (B)roll in ashes;
(C)make mourning as for an only son,
    most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
    will come upon us.

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For this (A)put on sackcloth,
    lament and wail,
for (B)the fierce anger of the Lord
    has not turned back from us.”

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The Humiliation of Babylon

47 (A)Come down and sit in the dust,
    O virgin (B)daughter of Babylon;
(C)sit on the ground without a throne,
    O daughter of (D)the Chaldeans!
(E)For you shall no more be called
    tender and delicate.
Take the millstones and (F)grind flour,
    (G)put off your veil,
strip off your robe, uncover your legs,
    pass through the rivers.
Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
    and your disgrace shall be seen.
I will take vengeance,
    and I will spare no one.

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14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
    trembling has seized the godless:
(A)“Who among us can dwell (B)with the consuming fire?
    Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”

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Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
    (A)let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
    concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

(B)For the Lord God of hosts has (C)a day
    of tumult and (D)trampling and (E)confusion
    in (F)the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
    and a shouting to the mountains.

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so shall the (A)king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.

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in the streets they wear sackcloth;
    on the housetops and in the squares
    everyone wails and melts in tears.

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24 Instead of (A)perfume there will be rottenness;
    and instead of a (B)belt, a rope;
and instead of (C)well-set hair, (D)baldness;
    and instead of a rich robe, a (E)skirt of sackcloth;
    and (F)branding instead of beauty.

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21 (A)to enter the caverns of the rocks
    and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    (B)when he rises to terrify the earth.

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19 (A)And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
    and the holes of the ground,[a]
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    (B)when he rises to terrify the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 2:19 Hebrew dust

48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he (A)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

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