Isaiah 47:1
Go down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Babylonia! No longer will people call you gentle and delicate.
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Job 2:8Job picked up a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself as he sat in ashes.
Psalms 18:27You save the humble, but you bring down the proud.
Psalms 137:8Daughter of Babylon, you will be destroyed! Happy is the one who pays you back, who does to you what you did to us!
Isaiah 13:1This is the message Isaiah, son of Amoz, received about Babylon.
Isaiah 14:1But the Lord will be merciful to the descendants of Jacob. Once again he will choose Israel and he will bring them back to live once more in their own land. Foreigners will come and join them there, and they will unite with the descendants of Jacob.
Isaiah 14:14I will ascend to the high places above the clouds; I will make myself 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 →