Isaiah 47:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Come down, sit in the dust, virgin daughter Babylon; Sit on the ground, dethroned, daughter of the Chaldeans. No longer shall you be called dainty and delicate.

Cross References

Job 2:13

Then they sat down upon the ground with him seven days and seven nights, but none of them spoke a word to him; for they saw how great was his suffering.

Job 2:8

He took a potsherd to scrape himself, as he sat among the ashes.

Psalm 137:8

Desolate Daughter Babylon, you shall be destroyed, blessed the one who pays you back what you have done us!

Psalm 18:27

Toward the pure, you are pure; but to the perverse you are devious.

Psalm 89:44

You turned back his sharp sword, did not support him in battle.

Isaiah 13:1

An oracle concerning Babylon; a vision of Isaiah, son of Amoz.

Isaiah 13:13

For this I will make the heavens tremble and the earth shall be shaken from its place, At the wrath of the Lord of hosts on the day of his burning anger.

Isaiah 14:1

But the Lord will take pity on Jacob and again choose Israel, and will settle them on their own land; foreigners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 21:1

Oracle on the wastelands by the sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negeb, it comes from the desert, from the fearful land.

Isaiah 23:12

Crushed, you shall exult no more, virgin daughter Sidon. Arise, pass over to the Kittim, even there you shall find no rest.

Isaiah 26:5

He humbles those who dwell on high, the lofty city he brings down, Brings it down to the ground, levels it to the dust.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates will lament and mourn, as the city sits desolate on the ground.

Isaiah 37:22

This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion; Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52:2

Arise, shake off the dust, sit enthroned, Jerusalem; Loose the bonds from your neck, captive daughter Zion!

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother: come down from your throne; From your heads your splendid crowns will fall.

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up to Gilead, procure balm, Virgin daughter Egypt! No use to multiply remedies; for you there is no healing.

Jeremiah 48:18

Come down from glory, sit on the parched ground, enthroned daughter Dibon; Moab’s destroyer has fallen upon you, has shattered your strongholds.

Jeremiah 50:1

The word the Lord spoke against Babylon, against the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:

Jeremiah 50:42

Bow and javelin they wield, cruel and pitiless are they; They sound like the roaring sea, as they ride forth on horses, Each in place for battle against you, daughter Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:1

Thus says the Lord: See! I rouse against Babylon, and the inhabitants of Chaldea, a destroyer wind.

Jeremiah 51:33

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time of treading; Yet a little while, and the harvest time will come for her.

Jeremiah 51:51

We are ashamed because we have heard taunts, disgrace covers our faces; strangers have entered sanctuaries in the Lord’s house.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of daughter Zion sit silently on the ground; They cast dust on their heads and dress in sackcloth; The young women of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 2:21

They lie on the ground in the streets, young and old alike; Both my young women and young men are cut down by the sword; You killed them on the day of your wrath, slaughtered without pity.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who feasted on delicacies are abandoned in the streets; Those who reclined on crimson now embrace dung heaps.

Ezekiel 26:16

All the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones, Lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed in mourning, they will sit on the ground And tremble, horror-struck and appalled at you.

Ezekiel 28:17

Your heart had grown haughty because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. I cast you to the ground, I made you a spectacle in the sight of kings.

Jonah 3:6

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Haggai 2:22

I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms, and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the riders with their horses will fall by each other’s swords.

Zechariah 2:7

Then the angel who spoke with me advanced as another angel came out to meet him

Revelation 18:7

To the measure of her boasting and wantonness repay her in torment and grief; for she said to herself, ‘I sit enthroned as queen; I am no widow, and I will never know grief.’