Isaiah 47:1
Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.
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Job 2:8And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.
Psalms 18:27\18:26\He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.
Psalms 137:8O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.
Isaiah 13:1The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
Isaiah 14:1For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.
Isaiah 14:14I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 47:1
Infinite Wisdom could have ordered things so that Israel might have been released and yet Babylon unhurt; but if they will harden their hearts, and will not let the people go, they must thank themselves that their ruin is made to pave the way to Israel's release. That ruin is here, in this chapter, largely foretold, not to gratify a spirit of revenge in the people of God, who had been used barbarously by them, but to encourage their faith and hope concerning their own deliverance, and to be a type of the downfall… Read the whole commentary →