ISAIAH 47:8-15
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
LOVE
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