Isaiah 47:1-3

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God’s Message to Babylon

47 “Fall down and sit in the dirt, Virgin Daughter Babylon.
    You have no throne, so sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans.^[a]
You are not the ruler now.
    You are no longer the beautiful young princess that people said you were.
²Get the millstones ready
    and grind the grain into flour.
Take off your veil and fancy clothes.
    Lift your skirt and get ready to cross the rivers.^[b]
³Men will see your naked body
    and use you for sex.
I will make you pay for the bad things you did,
    and I will not let anyone help you.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 47:1 Virgin Daughter Babylon, daughter of the Chaldeans Names for the city of Babylon.
Isaiah 47:2 rivers The Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Babylon was between these two rivers.