Isaiah 47:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

Cross References

Job 2:13

They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

Job 2:8

Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.

Psalm 137:8

O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us!

Psalm 18:27

For you deliver a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.

Psalm 89:44

You have removed the scepter from his hand and hurled his throne to the ground.

Isaiah 13:1

The oracle concerning Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 13:13

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place at the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 14:1

But the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and will settle them in their own land, and aliens will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 21:1

The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

Isaiah 23:12

He said: “You will exult no longer, O oppressed virgin daughter Sidon; rise, cross over to Cyprus— even there you will have no rest.”

Isaiah 26:5

For he has brought low the inhabitants of the height; the lofty city he lays low. He lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn; desolate, she shall sit upon the ground.

Isaiah 37:22

this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you; she scorns you— virgin daughter Zion; she tosses her head—behind your back, daughter Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52:2

Shake yourself from the dust; rise up, O captive Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.

Jeremiah 48:18

Come down from glory and sit on the parched ground, enthroned daughter Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds.

Jeremiah 50:1

The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the prophet Jeremiah:

Jeremiah 50:42

They wield bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride upon horses, set in array as a warrior for battle, against you, O daughter Babylon!

Jeremiah 51:1

Thus says the Lord: I am going to stir up a destructive wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai,

Jeremiah 51:33

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

Jeremiah 51:51

We are put to shame, for we have heard insults; dishonor has covered our faces, for aliens have come into the holy places of the Lord’s house.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads; they put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 2:21

The young and the old are lying on the ground in the streets; my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; in the day of your anger you have killed them, slaughtering without mercy.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple cling to ash heaps.

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the princes of the sea shall step down from their thrones; they shall remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling and shall sit on the ground; they shall tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

Ezekiel 28:17

Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

Jonah 3:6

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

Haggai 2:22

and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms; I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations and overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders shall fall, every one by the sword of a comrade.

Zechariah 2:7

Up! Escape to Zion, you who live with daughter Babylon.

Revelation 18:7

As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her a like measure of torment and grief. Since in her heart she says, ‘I rule as a queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief,’