Isaiah 47:1

Modern English Version

Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground; there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

Cross References

Job 2:13

Then they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights. Meanwhile, no one was speaking to him at all because they saw that his pain was severe.

Job 2:8

So he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, destined to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who rewards you as you have served us!

Psalm 18:27

For You will save the humble people, but will bring down haughty eyes.

Psalm 89:44

You have made his splendor cease, and cast his throne to the ground.

Isaiah 13:1

The oracle of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 13:13

Therefore, I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall be shaken out of her place at the wrath of the Lord of Hosts and in the day of His fierce anger.

Isaiah 14:1

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. Then the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 21:1

The oracle of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negev pass through, so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

Isaiah 23:12

He said: You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Cyprus; there also you shall have no rest.

Isaiah 26:5

For He brings down those who dwell on high, the lofty city; He lays it low; He lays it low, even to the ground; He brings it even to the dust.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, being desolate, shall sit on the ground.

Isaiah 37:22

this is the word which the Lord has spoken against him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Isaiah 52:2

Shake yourself from the dust; arise, O captive Jerusalem. Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Humble yourselves, sit down, for your beautiful crown shall come down from your head.”

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up into Gilead and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt; in vain you shall use many medicines, for you will not be cured.

Jeremiah 48:18

O daughter who inhabits Dibon, come down from your glory and sit on the parched ground, for the destroyer of Moab will come upon you, and he will destroy your strongholds.

Jeremiah 50:1

The word that the Lord spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet:

Jeremiah 50:42

They will hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea; and they shall ride on horses, everyone put in array, like a man to the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:1

Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Leb Kamai, the spirit of a destroyer.

Jeremiah 51:33

For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.

Jeremiah 51:51

We are humiliated because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the holy places of the house of the Lord.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they throw dust on their heads and gird themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 2:21

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have killed them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered and not pitied.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the officials of the sea shall come down from their thrones and lay away their robes and take off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling. They shall sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be astonished at you.

Ezekiel 28:17

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness; I cast you to the ground, I lay you before kings, that they may see you.

Jonah 3:6

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Haggai 2:22

I will overthrow the throne of the kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots and their riders. The horses and their riders will come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

Zechariah 2:7

Deliver yourself, O Zion, you who live with the daughter of Babylon.

Revelation 18:7

To the extent that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her torment and sorrow; for in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and will see no sorrow.’