Isaiah 47:5-7

Easy-to-Read Version

⁵ “So Babylon, sit down and shut up.
    Daughter of the Chaldeans, go into the dark prison.
    You will no longer be ‘The Queen of the Kingdoms.’

⁶ “I was angry with my people.
    They were mine, but I turned against them.
I let you punish them,
    but you showed them no mercy.
Even for those who were old
    you made the work hard.
⁷ You said, ‘I will live forever.
    I will always be the queen.’
You didn’t care what you did to my people.
    You didn’t think about what might happen later.