LEB ISA section

Babylon’s Fall

For[fn] you tender and delicate.
2 the pair of mill stones and grind flour! Uncover your veil,
- strip off your skirt,
uncover your thigh,
- pass through the rivers!
- 3  indeed, your shame shall become visible.
I will take vengeance
- and I will not[fn] a person.

4 Our redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the holy one of Israel.

5 Sit silently and go into the darkness, daughter of Chaldea,for they shall no longer call[fn] you mistress of kingdoms.

and I gave them into your hand.
- You did not[fn] them mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke very heavy.
7  You did not set these things upon your heart;
- you did not remember its end.
- 8 one who sits[fn] in security,who says[fn] in her heart, “Iam, and besides me there is no one.
I shall not sit as a widow,
- and I shall not know the loss of children.”
- 9 in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood shall come on you[fn]
in spite of your many sorceries,
- in spite of the power of your great enchantments.
- 10  you said, “[fn] sees[fn] me.”
Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray,
- and you said in your heart, “I am, and besides me there is no one.”
- 11  it will be on the lookout for her.
And disaster shall fall upon you; you will not be able to[fn] it.
- And ruin shall come on you suddenly; you do not know.
- 12  and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth.
Perhaps you may be able to benefit;
- perhaps you may[fn]
- 13 [fn] let them stand, now, and save you—
those who see the stars, divide the[fn]
- who inform by new moons—
  - from those things that are coming upon you.
- 14  the fire burns them completely.
  - They cannot deliver[fn] from the[fn] of the flame;
there is no coal[fn]
- no fire before which to sit.
- 15 those with whom you have labored, your traders from your youth.
They wander, each to his side;
- there is no one who can save you.

?:? Literally “you shall not add they shall call to”

?:? Literally “plead with”

?:? Literally “you shall not add they shall call to”

?:? Literally “set up”

?:? Or “sitting”

?:? Or “saying”

?:? Literally “as their fullness”

?:? Literally “none”

?:? Or “is seeing”

?:? Literally “make amends”

?:? Literally “terrify”

?:? Or “advice”

?:? Literally “heavens,” that is, for astrology

?:? Literally “their lives”

?:? Literally “hand”

?:? Literally “to grow warm”

LEB by section ISA 47:0b