Isaiah 47:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“Fall down and sit in the dirt, Virgin Daughter Babylon. You have no throne, so sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans. You are not the ruler now. You are no longer the beautiful young princess that people said you were.

Cross References

Jeremiah 51:33

This is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says: “Babylon is like a threshing floor, where people beat the grain at harvest time. And the time to beat Babylon is coming soon.

Psalm 137:8

Babylon, you will be destroyed! Bless the one who pays you back for what you did to us.

Zechariah 2:7

You people from Zion now live in Babylon. Escape! Run away from that city!”

Jeremiah 50:42

Their armies have bows and spears. The soldiers are cruel. They have no mercy. The soldiers come riding on their horses; the sound is as loud as the roaring sea. They stand in their places, ready for battle. They are ready to attack you, city of Babylon.

Jeremiah 46:11

“Egypt, go to Gilead and get some medicine. You will make up many medicines, but they will not help. You will not be healed.

Isaiah 3:26

There will be crying and sadness in the meeting places by the city gates. Jerusalem will sit there empty, like a woman who has lost everything to thieves and robbers and now just sits on the ground and cries.

Jeremiah 48:18

“You people living in Dibon, come down from your place of honor. Sit on the ground in the dust, because the Destroyer is coming. And he will destroy your strong cities.

Isaiah 37:22

“So this is the Lord’s message against Sennacherib: ‘The virgin daughter Zion does not think you are important. She makes fun of you. Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head at you and laughs behind your back.

Psalm 18:27

You help those who are humble, but you humiliate the proud.

Revelation 18:7

She gave herself much glory and rich living. Give her that much suffering and sadness. She says to herself, ‘I am a queen sitting on my throne. I am not a widow; I will never be sad.’

Ezekiel 28:17

Your beauty made you proud. Your glory ruined your wisdom. So I threw you down to the ground, and now other kings stare at you.

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the leaders of the countries by the sea will step down from their thrones and show their sadness. They will take off their special robes and their beautiful clothes. Then they will put on their ‘clothes of shaking.’ They will sit on the ground and shake with fear. They will be shocked at how quickly you were destroyed.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who ate rich food are now dying in the streets. Those who grew up wearing nice red clothes now pick through garbage piles.

Lamentations 2:21

Young men and old men lie on the ground in the streets of the city. My young women and young men have been killed by the sword. You killed them on the day of your anger. You killed them without mercy!

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of Zion sit on the ground. They sit on the ground and are quiet. They pour dust on their heads. They put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground in sorrow.

Jeremiah 13:18

Tell these things to the king and his wife, “Come down from your thrones. Your beautiful crowns have fallen from your heads.”

Isaiah 52:2

Jerusalem, get up and shake off the dust! Daughter Zion, you were a prisoner, but take the chains off your neck.

Isaiah 26:5

But he will destroy the proud city and punish those who live there. He will throw that high city down to the ground. It will fall into the dust.

Isaiah 23:12

He said, “Daughter Sidon, you have been hurt badly, so you will no longer rejoice like a bride. Go ahead, go to Cyprus for help, but you will not find a place to rest there either.”

Psalm 89:44

You did not let him win. You threw his throne to the ground.

Job 2:13

Then they sat on the ground with Job for seven days and seven nights. They didn’t say a word, because they saw he was in so much pain.

Job 2:8

Job sat on the pile of ashes where he was mourning and used a piece of broken pottery to scrape his sores.

Haggai 2:22

And I will overthrow many kings and kingdoms and destroy the power of the kingdoms of those other people. I will destroy their chariots and their riders. I will defeat their war horses and riders. These armies are friends now, but they will turn against each other and kill each other with swords.”

Jonah 3:6

When the king of Nineveh heard about this, he left his throne, removed his robe, put on special clothes to show that he was sorry, and sat in ashes.

Isaiah 13:1

God showed Isaiah son of Amoz this message about Babylon:

Jeremiah 50:1

This is the message the Lord spoke through the prophet Jeremiah about Babylon and its people.

Isaiah 13:13

In my anger I will shake the sky, and the earth will be moved from its place.” That will happen on the day the Lord All-Powerful shows his anger.

Isaiah 14:1

The Lord will again show his love to Jacob. He will again choose the people of Israel. He will give them their land. Then the non-Israelites will join the Israelites, and both will become one family—Jacob’s family.

Isaiah 21:1

This is a message about the “desert by the sea”: It is coming like a storm blowing through the Negev. It is coming in from the desert, from a frightening nation.

Jeremiah 51:1

The Lord says, “I will cause a powerful, destructive wind to blow against Babylon and the Babylonians.

Jeremiah 51:51

“We people of Judah are ashamed. We have been insulted, because strangers have gone into the holy places of the Lord’s Temple.”