Isaiah 47

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Isaiah 47:1-15 (KJV) 

1 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.

Babylon has been around a long time.  Here God is calling the new breed of Babylonians; let me tell you of your fate.  You will be seated on the ground although you thought you will be sitting on a throne.  Your name has changed, the position you thought you were getting to walk into, has decayed.

 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 

You have been waited on, now you are getting ready to know what it means to go to work.  Hold that pretty dress up, better yet tie it around your loins so it will not get wet.

3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a man.

The real you is now exposed.  Your sham is the word on the street.  I am God and I will show you, I am not a man and when I hit you, you will feel the fist of God.

 4 [As for] our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [is] his name, the Holy One of Israel. 

I am God.

5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. 

Be quiet first ladies.  You will never be given that title again.

6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. 

Yes, my people did wrong, I punished them, but you took advantage of them; you had no mercy on any of them, not even the elderly.

7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that thou didst not lay these [things] to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 

You thought things will always be for you the way were used to them being.  Nope, you are wrong.

8 Therefore hear now this, [thou that art] given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 

Those of you who thought I was blind and deaf.  You bragged about your future and said I will always be a mother and my husband will always be my breadwinner.

9 But these two [things] shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, [and] for the great abundance of thine enchantments. 

I am hitting you hard all in a day's time.  I will make you eat every word you spoke and none of what you bragged about will ever happen.

10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me. 

You lied to yourself.

11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know. 

I am going to hit you so hard, you will not be able to tell what happened because it will happen so fast.

12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. 

Call your idols, that have been around you since you were young.  See if it cares.

13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from [these things] that shall come upon thee. 

You, foolish counsels, have no sense. You refused My Word and now you will deal with the part I promised.  You will feel what it is like to hurt my people.

14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there shall] not [be] a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it. 

Things will not be comfortable for you at all.

15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

All of your friends will be just like you.  They helped you do the wrong and now they are suffering just like you.  I told ya!  This day is coming.