Isaiah 47:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

City of Babylon, you are delicate and untouched, but that will change. Surrender your royal power and sit in the dust.

Cross References

Job 2:13

For seven days and nights, they sat silently on the ground beside him, because they realized what terrible pain he was in.

Job 2:8

Then Job sat on the ash heap to show his sorrow. And while he was scraping his sores with a broken piece of pottery,

Psalm 137:8

Babylon, you are doomed! I pray the Lord's blessings on anyone who punishes you for what you did to us.

Psalm 18:27

You rescue the humble, but you put down all who are proud.

Psalm 89:44

You took his crown and threw his throne to the ground.

Isaiah 13:1

This is the message that I was given about Babylon:

Isaiah 13:13

I, the LORD All-Powerful, am terribly angry— I will make the sky tremble and the earth shake loose.

Isaiah 14:1

The LORD will have mercy on Israel and will let them be his chosen people once again. He will bring them back to their own land, and foreigners will join them as part of Israel.

Isaiah 21:1

This is a message about a desert beside the sea: Enemies from a hostile nation attack like a whirlwind from the Southern Desert.

Isaiah 23:12

The LORD has said to the people of Sidon, “Your celebrating is over— you are crushed. Even if you escape to Cyprus, you won't find peace.”

Isaiah 26:5

God has put down our enemies in their mountain city and rubbed it in the dust.

Isaiah 3:26

The city will mourn and sit in the dust, emptied of its people.

Isaiah 52:2

Zion, rise from the dust! Free yourself from the rope around your neck.

Jeremiah 13:18

The LORD told me to tell you that your king and his mother must surrender their thrones and remove their crowns.

Jeremiah 46:11

Egypt, no medicine can heal you, not even the soothing lotion from Gilead.

Jeremiah 48:18

People in the town of Dibon, you will be honoured no more, so have a seat in the dust. Your walls will be torn down when the enemies attack.

Jeremiah 50:1

The LORD told me to say: Announce what will happen and don't leave anything out. Raise the signal flags; shout so all nations can hear— Babylon will be captured! Marduk, Babylon's god, will be ashamed and terrified, and his idols broken.

Jeremiah 50:42

Bows and arrows and swords are in their hands. The soldiers are cruel and show no pity. The hoofbeats of their horses echo like ocean waves crashing against the shore. The army has lined up for battle and is coming to attack you, people of Babylonia!

Jeremiah 51:1

I, the LORD, am sending a wind to destroy the people of Babylonia and Babylon, its capital.

Jeremiah 51:33

I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I make this promise— “Soon Babylon will be levelled and packed down like a threshing place at harvest time.”

Jeremiah 51:51

You feel ashamed and disgraced, because foreigners have entered my sacred temple.

Lamentations 2:10

Zion's leaders are silent. They just sit on the ground, tossing dust on their heads and wearing sackcloth. Her young women can do nothing but stare at the ground.

Lamentations 2:21

My people, both young and old, lie dead in the streets. Because you were angry, my young men and women were brutally slaughtered.

Lamentations 4:5

All who ate expensive foods lie starving in the streets; those who grew up in luxury now sit on rubbish heaps.

Ezekiel 26:16

The kings will step down from their thrones, then take off their royal robes and fine clothes, and sit on the ground, trembling. They will be so shocked at the news of your defeat that they will shake in fear

Ezekiel 28:17

It was your good looks that made you arrogant, and you were so famous that you started acting like a fool. That's why I threw you to the ground and let other kings sneer at you.

Jonah 3:6

When the king of Nineveh heard what was happening, he also dressed in sackcloth; he left the royal palace and sat in dust.

Haggai 2:22

and wipe out kings and their kingdoms. I will overturn war chariots, and then cavalry troops will start slaughtering each other.

Zechariah 2:7

Leave Babylonia and hurry back to Zion.”

Revelation 18:7

That woman honoured herself with a life of luxury. Reward her now with suffering and pain. “Deep in her heart Babylon said, ‘I am the queen! Never will I be a widow or know what it means to be sad.’