Mourning for Babylon

47 (A)Come down and sit in the dust,
(B)Virgin (C)daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you will no longer be called (D)tender and delicate.

Read full chapter

(A)I will build you again and you will be rebuilt,
Virgin of Israel!
You will [a]take up your (B)tambourines again,
And go out to the dances of the (C)revelers.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:4 Lit adorn yourself with

21 “Set up roadmarks for yourself,
Place guideposts for yourself;
(A)Direct your [a]mind to the highway,
The way by which you went.
(B)Return, O virgin of Israel,
Return to these your cities.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:21 Lit heart

Bible Gateway Recommends