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Isaiah 47:6

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I was angry with my people.
I profaned my inheritance
and gave them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy.
You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

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Isaiah 47:6 in other translations

I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Isaiah 47:6 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 47:6 in context

  1. 4Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name,
    is the Holy One of Israel.
  2. 5“Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
    daughter of the Chaldeans.
    For you shall no longer be called
    the mistress of kingdoms.
  3. 6I was angry with my people.
    I profaned my inheritance
    and gave them into your hand.
    You showed them no mercy.
    You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
  4. 7You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’
    so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart,
    nor did you remember the results.
  5. 8“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,
    who sit securely,
    who say in your heart,
    ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.
    I won’t sit as a widow,
    neither will I know the loss of children.’