Make Your face shine on Your servant. Save me in Your lovingkindness.
Isaiah 47:5 - Tree of Life Version Sit in silence, go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no more be called the mistress-queen 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. |
Make Your face shine on Your servant. Save me in Your lovingkindness.
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear. He burns chariots with fire.
For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, with marshes of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon and say: “How the taskmaster has ceased! The raging oppressor, exacter of gold, has ceased!
Look! Here comes a chariot of men, with a pair of horsemen.” Then one answered and said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods are broken on the ground.”
Be still, inhabitants of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, your messengers crossing the sea.
Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no more be called tender and delicate.
You said, “Forever, I will be the eternal mistress-queen!” You did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
“Moreover, I will silence among them the voice of joy and the voice 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 are we sitting here? Assemble! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For Adonai Eloheinu has silenced us and given us poisoned water to drink. For we have sinned against Adonai.
How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She who was once great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has become a forced laborer.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground in silence. They threw dust on their heads and girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
But Adonai is in His holy Temple. Let all the land be silent before Him.
‘For behold, I will shake My hand against them and they will be plunder to their servants.’ Then you will know that Adonai-Tzva’ot has sent me.
wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
And the woman that you saw is the great city exercising kingship over the kings of the earth.”
As she has exalted herself and indulged herself in luxury, so give her the same measure of torment and grief! For in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen— I am no widow; I shall never see grief.’
He guards the steps of His godly ones, but the wicked are silenced in darkness. For one does not prevail by might.