3 Let thy nakedness be uncovered, yea, let thy shame be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not meet man.

4 Our redeemer, the LORD of Hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

5 Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldaeans; for thou shalt no more be (one) they call lady of kingdoms.

6 I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand; thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the aged thou didst make thy yoke exceeding heavy.

7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: until thou didst not lay these things to thine heart, thou didst not remember the latter end of it.

8 And now hear this, thou given to pleasure, that sittest securely, that sayest in thine heart, I and none else beside: I shall not sit a widow. neither shall I know bereavement.

9 And these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, bereavement, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in full measure, for the multitude of thy ’orceries, for the exceeding number of thy spells.

10 And thou hast been secure in thine evil: thou hast said, There is none that seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath turned thee aside; and thou hast said in thine heart, I, and none else beside.

2. ‘take off,’ lit. ‘uncover thyveil’: same word as in ‘uncover the3. ‘meet,’ i.e. ‘make terms with man’: or possibly, ‘spare8. ‘given to pleasure’: ‘voluptuous ’ Alex., Cheyne: ‘securely,’ ‘confidently,’ and so vet. 19: ‘bereavement,’ or ‘childlessness,’ and so ver. 99 ‘for’: (twice) perhaps, ‘in spite of...’ (for all): or simply,

11 And evil shall come upon thee; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof; and ruin shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to avert it: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, (which) thou shalt not know.

12 Stand forth, I pray, with thy spells, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth: peradventure thou wilt be able to profit, peradventure thou wilt strike terror.

13 Thou art wearied with the multitude of thy counsels: let them, I pray thee, stand forth and save thee—they who the heavens, who gaze on the stars, who make known at the new moons—from what shall come upon

14 Behold, they are become as stubble, ﬁre hath burned them; they shall not deliver their soul from the hand of the ﬂame; it is no coal to be warm, ﬁre to sit before.

15 Thus are the things to thee wherein thou hast laboured: thy traffickers from thy youth go astray everyone his own way: there is none that saveth thee.

XLVIII. 1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, not in truth, and not in righteousness.

2 For they are called of the holy city, and lean upon the God of Israel: the Lord of Hosts is his name.

3 I have declared the ﬁrst things from that time; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I wrought suddenly, and they came to pass.

4 Because I knew that thou art hard, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass:

11. ‘the dawning thereof’: or, ‘how to charm it away’: cf. (Margoliouth). ‘avert,’ lit. ‘atone,’ ‘cover.’12 init. Or, ‘Persist, I pray, in thy...’13. Or, ‘make known . . . of what shall,’14. ‘their soul,’ i.e. themselves, their life: ‘hand,’ i.e.15. I ‘laboured’: or, ‘wearied thyself’ (as ver. 12, but not 13).1. ‘are called,’ or, ‘call yourselves’: and similarly ver. 3.

5 Therefore I have from that time declared it to thee 3 before it came to pass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

6 Thou hast heard 3 see it all: and ye, will not ye declare it? I have caused thee to hear new things from now, and things reserved, and thou didst not know them. ‘

7 They are created now, and not from that time 3 and before to-day, and thou heardest them not 3 lest thou shouldest say,- Behold, I knew them.