Isaiah 47:1-3

Good News Translation

“Babylon, come down from your throne,
    and sit in the dust on the ground.
You were once like a virgin, a city unconquered,
    but you are soft and delicate no longer!
You are now a slave!
² Turn the millstone! Grind the flour!
Off with your veil! Strip off your fine clothes!
Lift up your skirts to cross the streams!^[a]
3 People will see you naked;
    they will see you humbled and shamed.
I will take vengeance, and no one will stop me.”