Isaiah 47:1

“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

² Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

³ Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
KJV: 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 thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
WEB: “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 longer be called tender and delicate.
ASV: Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
DARBY: Come down and sit in the dust, virgin-daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground, [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
BLB: [“] Go down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For no longer will they call you tender and delicate.

ÅB: Stig ned og sett deg i støvet, du jomfru, Babels datter! Sett deg på jorden uten trone, du kaldeernes datter! For de skal ikke mere kalle deg den fine og kjælne.
OTB: “Stig ned og sitt i støvet, Jomfru Datter av Babylon; sitt på bakken uten trone, Datter av Kaldeerne. Du vil ikke lenger bli kalt øm og delikat.
B1930: Stig ned og sett dig i støvet, du jomfru, Babels datter! Sett dig på jorden uten trone, du kaldeernes datter! For de skal ikke mere kalle dig den fine og kjælne.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 137:8
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
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Jeremiah 51:33
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
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Jeremiah 46:11
Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.
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Jeremiah 50:42
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
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Zechariah 2:7
“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”
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Isaiah 3:26
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
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Isaiah 37:22
this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
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Psalms 18:27
For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
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