Do not let me be put to shame, O Lord, for I call on you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
Isaiah 47:5 - New Revised Standard Version Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the lady and mistress of kingdoms. American Standard Version (1901) Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called The mistress of kingdoms. Common English Bible Sit silent and go into darkness, Daughter Chaldea, because they will no longer call you Queen of Kingdoms. Catholic Public Domain Version Sit in silence, and enter into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no longer be called the noblewoman of kingdoms. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Sit thou silent and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms. |
Do not let me be put to shame, O Lord, for I call on you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
“Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.”
For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.
And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.
you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased! How his insolence has ceased!
Look, there they come, riders, horsemen in pairs!” Then he responded, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground.”
Be still, O inhabitants of the coast, O merchants of Sidon, your messengers crossed over the sea
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.
You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
And I will banish from them the sound of mirth and the sound of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
Why do we sit still? Gather together, let us go into the fortified cities and perish there; for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish, and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become a vassal.
The elders of daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young girls of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him!
Be silent, all people, before the Lord; for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.
wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.
The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”
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,’
“He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness; for not by might does one prevail.