Reformation Directory

The destruction of Babylon and the causes whereof.

1.Come down and sit in the dust: ô ^avirgin, daughter of Babél, sit on the ground: there is no ^bthrone, ô daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, Tender and delicate.

2.Take the mille stones, and ^cgrind meal · loose thy locks: ^dmake bare the feet: uncover the leg, and pass through the floods.

3.Thy filthiness shalbe discovered, and thy shame shalbe seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a ^eman.

4.^fOur redeemer, the Lord of hostes is his Name, the holy one of Israél.

5.^gSit still, and get thee into darkness, ô daughter of the Caldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

6.I was wrath with my people: I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didest shewe them no ^hmercy, but thou didest lay thy very heavy yoke upon the ancient.

7.And thou saidest, I shalbe a lady for ever, so that thou didest not set thy mind to these things, neither didest thou remember the latter end thereof.

8.Therefore now hear, thou that art given to pleasures, and dwellest careless, She saith in her heart, I am and none else: I shal not sit as a widow, neither shal know the loss of children.

9.But these two things shal come to thee suddenly on one day, the loss of children and widdowehead: they shal come upon thee in their ⁱperfection, for the multitude of thy divinations, and for the great abundance of thine inchanters.

10.For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy ^kwisdom and thy knowledge, they have caused thee to rebel, & thou hast said in thine heart, I am, & none else.

11.Therefore shal evil come upon thee, and thou shalt not know the morning thereof: destruction shall fall upon thee, which thou shalt not be able to put away: destruction shal come upon thee suddenly, or thou beware.

12.Stand now among thine inchanters, and in the multitude of thy sothesayers (with whom thou hast ^lwearied thy self from thy youth) if so be thou maiest have profit, or if so be thou maiest have strength.

13.Thou are wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the star gazers, and pronosticators stand up, and save thee from these things, that shal come upon thee.

14.Behold, they shalbe as stubble: the fire shal burn them: they shal not deliver their own lives from the power of the flame: there shal be no coals ^mto warm at, nor light to sit by.

15.Thus shal they serve thee, with whom thou hast wearied thee, even thy marchants from thy youth: every one shal wander to his own ⁿquarter: none shal save thee.

Isaiah 47

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