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Get the millstones ready
    and grind the grain into flour.
Take off your veil and fancy clothes.
    Lift your skirt and get ready to cross the rivers.[a]
Men will see your naked body
    and use you for sex.
I will make you pay for the bad things you did,
    and I will not let anyone help you.

“My people say, ‘God saves us.
    His name is the Lord All-Powerful, the Holy One of Israel.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:2 rivers The Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Babylon was between these two rivers.

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