Isaiah 47:3

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Summary

Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

I will take

Bible References

I will take

You nations, come here and listen;
you peoples, pay attention!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it,
the world and all that comes from it.

He put on righteousness like a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and He wrapped Himself in zeal as in a cloak.

For I planned the day of vengeance,

and the year of My redemption came.

Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay.

In time their foot will slip,
for their day of disaster is near,
and their doom is coming quickly.”

Lord, God of vengeance—
God of vengeance, appear.

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.

And when you ask yourself,
“Why have these things happened to me?”
It is because of your great guilt
that your skirts have been stripped off,
your body exposed.

Put all her young bulls to the sword;
let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, because their day has come,
the time of their punishment.

Those who were slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
those who were pierced through, in her streets.

Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for His wrath. For it is written: Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay,

says the Lord.

For we know the One who has said, Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay,

and again, The Lord will judge His people.

I am against you.
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
I will lift your skirts over your face
and display your nakedness to nations,
your shame to kingdoms.

When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the people slaughtered because of God’s word and the testimony they had.

The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the Great was remembered in God’s presence; He gave her the cup filled with the wine of His fierce anger.

For her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes.