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UST ISA Chapter 47

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47 Yahweh says, “You Babylonian people will mourn greatly

because you will no longer rule other countries.

You will be like a queen who once sat on a throne

but who is now sitting on the ground.

It will be as if people once said that she was very dainty

but then stopped saying that about her.

2 It will be as if that former queen had to take millstones

and grind flour like a slave.

It will be as if she had to remove her veil, take off her robes,

and lift up her skirts so that she could wade through rivers.

3 Your enemies will strip you Babylonians naked to lead you away as captives,

and you will feel great shame because they have exposed your bodies.

I will punish you,

and I will not spare anyone.”

4 Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies,

is the name of the one who is rescuing us.

He is the holy God of us Israelites.

5 Yahweh says, “Sit down and be silent, you Babylonians,

and then go into captivity.

No one will ever again call you

“The Kingdom that Rules Other Kingdoms.”

6 I was angry with my people,

and I treated them as if they were not special.

I allowed you to capture them.

But you did not treat them with any kindness.

You even treated old people very harshly.

7 You said, ‘I will always rule other kingdoms.’

But you did not think carefully about your situation.

You did not consider what would finally happen to you.

8 So now listen to this, you Babylonians who love luxury

and think that you are safe.

You say to yourself that you are like God

and that no one is equal to you.

You say that your gods will always protect you

and that you will never lose your people.

9 But both of those things will happen to you very suddenly.

Your gods will fail to protect you,

and you will lose your people.

This will happen to you completely,

even though you practice many kinds of magic

and perform spells that you think are very powerful.

10 You rely on doing things that are wrong,

and you believe that no one is able to judge and punish you for doing them.

You believe that you know how to do things magically.

But because you are wrong about this,

you say to yourself,

‘I am like God, and no one is equal to me.’

11 But terrible things will happen to you,

and you will not recognize it when they begin to happen.

Enemies will come to destroy you,

and you will not be able to appease them.

They will destroy you suddenly,

before you even realize what they are going to do.

12 You can go ahead and keep performing spells

and practicing many kinds of magic.

You have been working hard at that for a long time.

But this will not help you.

You will not be able to scare your enemies away.

13 You have many people who advise you.

They group the stars into constellations that they believe influence people.

They consider what stars are in the sky at a certain time,

and they tell you what you should do during that time.

But those people have only worn you out.

They will not be able to save you from what is going to happen to you now.

14 Listen! Your enemies will destroy those advisors

the way fire burns up straw.

They will not be able to save themselves

when those enemies destroy them as if they were burning them up.

This will not be like a home fire that produces coals that warm people

and lights the area in front of it.

15 For a long time, you have worked hard to rely on magicians.

But they will not help you at all.

It will be as if they all walk away from you.

None of them will be able to save you.”