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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
ISAIAH
CHAPTER 47
  1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of aBabylon, sit on the ground: there is no bthrone, O cdaughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Footnotes
1a
Ps. 137: 8.
  8 O daughter of aBabylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
b
IE Babylon was to be overthrown; this prophecy fulfilled by Cyrus, 539 B.C.
c
HEB virgin daughter; i.e. the heretofore unconquered Babylonian empire.