Isaiah 47
15 verses
The Lord pronounces judgment against Babylon, described as a virgin daughter who will be brought low and stripped of her dominion, becoming a slave. The oracle depicts Babylon's confidence in her wisdom and dominion as the cause of her destruction, establishing that pride and self-reliance invite judgment. The passage emphasizes that Babylon's multitude of sorcerers and charms will not save her and that her dominion was unjust, accomplished through cruelty and oppression. The oracle promises that darkness and anguish will come upon Babylon suddenly, and that her vast sorceries will not avail, establishing that the powers that seemed to guarantee security will prove useless. The vision includes the promise that calamity will befall Babylon and that she will not know its source, establishing that judgment often comes in ways that transcend human understanding and control. The oracle announces that Babylon's disasters will come upon her because she trusted in her wickedness, establishing that divine judgment is a response to persistent faithlessness and injustice. Isaiah 47 demonstrates that even the mightiest powers are subject to divine judgment and that pride and reliance on false powers invite destruction. The chapter provides assurance to the exiled people that Babylon, their oppressor, will fall and that they will be liberated.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
1
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
0 0Open verse page →
2
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
0 0Open verse page →
3
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
0 0Open verse page →
4
As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
0 0Open verse page →
5
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
0 0Open verse page →
God is faithful in every circumstance.. God is faithful in every circumstance.. Reading the Psalms alongside this gives ...
6
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
1 0Open verse page →
7
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
0 0Open verse page →
8
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
0 0Open verse page →
9
But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
0 0Open verse page →
10
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
0 0Open verse page →
11
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
0 0Open verse page →
12
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
0 0Open verse page →
13
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
0 0Open verse page →
14
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
0 0Open verse page →
15
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
0 0Open verse page →
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
No notes on this chapter yet. Be the first to write one!