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Isaiah 47
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The Party’s Over

47"Get off your high horse and sit in the dirt, virgin daughter of Babylon. No more throne for you—sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans. Nobody will be calling you 'charming' and 'alluring' anymore. Get used to it.H3381H3427H6083H1330H1323H894H3427H776H3678H1323H3778H3254H7121H7390H6028 2Get a job, any old job: Clean gutters, scrub toilets. Hock your gowns and scarves, put on overalls—the party's over.H3947H7347H2912H7058H1540H6777H2834H7640H1540H7785H5674H5104 3Your nude body will be on public display, exposed to vulgar taunts. It's vengeance time, and I'm taking vengeance. No one gets let off the hook."H6172H1540H2781H7200H3947H5359H6293H120

You’re Acting Like the Center of the Universe

4Our Redeemer speaks, named GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, The Holy of Israel:H1350H3068H6635H8034H6918H3478 5"Shut up and get out of the way, daughter of Chaldeans. You'll no longer be called 'First Lady of the Kingdoms.'H3427H1748H935H2822H1323H3778H3254H7121H1404H4467 6I was fed up with my people, thoroughly disgusted with my progeny. I turned them over to you, but you had no compassion. You put old men and women to cruel, hard labor.H7107H5971H2490H5159H5414H3027H7760H7356H2205H3966H3513H5923 7You said, 'I'm the First Lady. I'll always be the pampered darling.' You took nothing seriously, took nothing to heart, never gave tomorrow a thought.H559H1404H5769H7760H3820H2142H319 8Well, start thinking, playgirl. You're acting like the center of the universe, Smugly saying to yourself, 'I'm Number One. There's nobody but me. I'll never be a widow, I'll never lose my children.'H8085H5719H3427H983H559H3824H657H3427H490H3045H7908 9Those two things are going to hit you both at once, suddenly, on the same day: Spouse and children gone, a total loss, despite your many enchantments and charms.H8147H935H7281H259H3117H7908H489H935H8537H7230H3785H3966H6109H2267 10You were so confident and comfortable in your evil life, saying, 'No one sees me.' You thought you knew so much, had everything figured out. What delusion! Smugly telling yourself, 'I'm Number One. There's nobody but me.'H982H7451H559H7200H2451H1847H7725H559H3820H657 11Ruin descends— you can't charm it away. Disaster strikes— you can't cast it off with spells. Catastrophe, sudden and total— and you're totally at sea, totally bewildered!H7451H935H3045H7837H1943H5307H3201H3722H7722H935H6597H3045 12But don't give up. From your great repertoire of enchantments there must be one you haven't yet tried. You've been at this a long time. Surely something will work.H5975H2267H7230H3785H834H3021H5271H3201H3276H6206 13I know you're exhausted trying out remedies, but don't give up. Call in the astrologers and stargazers. They're good at this. Surely they can work up something!H3811H7230H6098H1895H8064H2374H3556H2320H3045H5975H3467H935 14"Fat chance. You'd be grasping at straws that are already in the fire, A fire that is even now raging. Your 'experts' are in it and won't get out. It's not a fire for cooking venison stew, not a fire to warm you on a winter night!H7179H784H8313H5337H5315H3027H3852H1513H2552H217H3427 15That's the fate of your friends in sorcery, your magician buddies you've been in cahoots with all your life. They reel, confused, bumping into one another. None of them bother to help you.H3021H5503H5271H8582H376H5676H3467


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