Isaiah 47:5

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Daughter Chaldea,sit in silence and go into darkness.For you will no longer be called mistress of kingdoms.

Hebrew Names Version
Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Kasdim; for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.

King James Version
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

English Standard Version
Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

New American Standard Bible
"Sit silently, and go into darkness, Daughter of the Chaldeans; For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms.

New Century Version
"Babylon, sit in darkness and say nothing. You will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.

Amplified Bible
"Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms.

World English Bible
Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Sit still, and get thee into darkenesse, O daughter of the Chaldeas: for thou shalt no more be called, The ladie of kingdomes.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Sit silently, and go into darkness,O daughter of the Chaldeans,For you will no longer be calledThe queen of kingdoms.

Contemporary English Version
Babylon, be silent! Sit in the dark. No longer will nations accept you as their queen.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Sit there speechless, go into darkness, you daughter of the Kasdim! For you will no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.

Darby Translation
Sit silent, and get thee into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called, Mistress of kingdoms.

Easy-to-Read Version
"So Babylon, sit down and shut up. Daughter of the Chaldeans, go into the dark prison. You will no longer be ‘The Queen of the Kingdoms.'

George Lamsa Translation
Sit silent and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called, The mightiest of kingdoms.

Good News Translation
The Lord says to Babylon, "Sit in silence and darkness; no more will they call you the queen of nations!

Lexham English Bible
Sit silently and go into the darkness, daughter of Chaldea, for they shall no longer call you mistress of kingdoms.

Literal Translation
Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for they shall no more call you the mistress of kingdoms.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Syt still, holde thy tunge, and get the in to some darcke corner (O doughter Caldea) for thou shalt nomore be called lady of kyngdomes.

American Standard Version
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.

Bible in Basic English
Be seated in the dark without a word, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will no longer be named, The Queen of Kingdoms.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

King James Version (1611)
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darknes, O daughter of the Caldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the Ladie of kingdomes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Sit still, holde thy tongue; get thee into some darke corner O daughter Caldea: for thou shalt no more be called lady of kyngdomes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Sit thou down pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: thou shalt no more be called the strength of a kingdom.

English Revised Version
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called The lady of kingdoms.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Douyter of Caldeis, sitte thou, be thou stille, and entre in to derknessis, for thou schalt no more be clepid the ladi of rewmes.

Update Bible Version
Sit silent, and get into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.

Webster's Bible Translation
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

New English Translation
"Sit silently! Go to a hiding place, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called ‘Queen of kingdoms.'

New King James Version
"Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; For you shall no longer be called The Lady of Kingdoms.

New Living Translation
"O beautiful Babylon, sit now in darkness and silence. Never again will you be known as the queen of kingdoms.

New Life Bible
"Sit and be quiet, and go into darkness, O people of the Babylonians. For you will no more be called the queen of nations.

New Revised Standard
Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Sit silent, and get into darkness, Daughter of the Chaldeans! For thou shalt no more be called Mistress of Kingdoms.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms.

Revised Standard Version
Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chalde'ans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

Young's Literal Translation
Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, `Mistress of kingdoms.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Sit silently, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms.

Contextual Overview

¹Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender and delicate. ²Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams. ³Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one. ⁴Our Redeemer-the LORD of Hosts is His name-is the Holy One of Israel. ⁵Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.⁶I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even upon the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

silent: Isaiah 13:20, Isaiah 14:23, 1 Samuel 2:9, Psalms 31:17, Psalms 46:10, Jeremiah 25:10, Lamentations 1:1, Habakkuk 2:20, Zechariah 2:13, Matthew 22:12, Matthew 22:13, Jude 1:13, Revelation 18:21-24

for: After Babylon was taken by Cyrus, instead of being "the lady of kingdoms," the metropolis of a great empire, and mistress of all the East, it became subject to the Persians; and the imperial seat being removed to Susa, instead of having a king, it had only a deputy residing there, who governed it as a province of the Persian empire. Isaiah 47:7, Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 14:4, Daniel 2:37, Daniel 2:38, Revelation 17:3-5, Revelation 17:18, Revelation 18:7, Revelation 18:16-19

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:21 - the daughter Isaiah 23:2 - still Isaiah 23:12 - thou oppressed Jeremiah 30:16 - General Jeremiah 51:53 - mount Jeremiah 51:55 - destroyed Lamentations 2:10 - elders Micah 7:10 - she that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Sit thou silent,.... Here the speech is directed again to Babylon, which used to be a place of noise and hurry, as well as famous and much talked of all the world over; but now there should be a deep silence in it, no voice to be heard, the inhabitants being gone, and no discourse concerning it; no more talked of and celebrated for its magnificence and authority, trade and riches, but buried in oblivion. It is represented as sitting in silence, either as a mourner, or as one that is free among the dead, remembered no more:

and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; meaning either captivity or imprisonment, prison houses being dark; or into the state of the dead, which is a state of darkness:

for thou shall no more be called the lady of kingdoms; the mistress or governess of them, as she had been, having subdued many kingdoms and nations, and added them to her monarchy, which now would be at an end. Thus mystical Babylon, or Rome, has reigned over the kings of the earth, and has been mistress over many nations; but the time is coming when she will sit in silence, and no voice will be heard in her; and when the kingdom of the beast will be full of darkness,

Revelation 17:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sit thou silent - The same general sentiment is expressed here as in the preceding verses, though the figure is changed. In Isaiah 47:1-3, Babylon is represented under the image of a frivolous and delicately-reared female, suddenly reduced from her exalted station, and compelled to engage in the most menial and laborious employment. Here she is represented as in a posture of mourning. To sit in silence is emblematic of deep sorrow, or affliction (see Lamentations 2:10): ‘The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and keep silence, they have cast up dust upon their heads;’ - see the note at Isaiah 3:26 : ‘And she (Jerusalem) being desolate shall sit upon the ground;’ Job 2:13 : ‘So they (the three friends of Job) sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him, for they saw that his grief was very great.’ Compare Ezra 9:4.

Get thee into darkness - That is, into a place of mourning. Persons greatly afflicted, almost as a matter of course, shut out the light from their dwellings, as emblematic of their feelings. This is common even in this country - and particularly in the city in which I write where the universal custom prevails of making a house dark during the time of mourning. Nature prompts to this, for there is an obvious similarity between darkness and sorrow. That this custom also prevailed in the East is apparent (see Lamentations 3:2): ‘He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light;’ Mic. 8:8: ‘When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.’ The idea is, that Babylon would be brought to desolation, and have occasion of sorrow, like a delicately-trained female suddenly deprived of children Isaiah 47:9, and that she would seek a place of darkness and silence where she might fully indulge her grief.

O daughter of the Chaldeans - (See the notes at Isaiah 47:1).

For thou shalt no more be called The lady of kingdoms - The magnificence, splendor, beauty, and power, which have given occasion to this appellation, and which have led the nations by common consent to give it to thee, shall be entirely and forever removed. The appellation, ‘lady of kingdoms.’ is equivalent to that so often used of Rome, as ‘the mistress of the world;’ and the idea is, that Babylon sustained by its power and splendor the relation of mistress, and that all other cities were regarded as servants, or as subordinate.