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    Everyone will see you naked; your humiliation will be most public.
        I intend to make you pay, and no one will interfere.[a]

Israel: Our Savior, our hero—the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies,
        by name—is the Holy One of Israel!
    So you’d best go quietly, Babylon, daughter of the Chaldeans.
        Slink off into the dark. No one will ever again call you Queen of All Lands.

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Footnotes

  1. 47:3 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

Your nakedness(A) will be exposed
    and your shame(B) uncovered.
I will take vengeance;(C)
    I will spare no one.(D)

Our Redeemer(E)—the Lord Almighty(F) is his name(G)
    is the Holy One(H) of Israel.

“Sit in silence,(I) go into darkness,(J)
    queen city of the Babylonians;(K)
no more will you be called
    queen(L) of kingdoms.(M)

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