Isaiah 47:1

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 men shall nevermore call thee, Tender and delicate.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Take the mill, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, lift up the train, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

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Cross References

Job 2:8And [Job] took himself a potsherd to scrape himself there with, while he was sitting down among the ashes.

Psalms 18:27(18:28) For thou wilt indeed save the afflicted people; but haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.

Psalms 137:8O daughter of Babylon, who art wasted: happy he, that repayeth thee thy recompense for what thou hast done to us.

Isaiah 13:1The doom of Babylon, which Isaiah Amoz' son foresaw.

Isaiah 14:1For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make choice of Israel, and replace them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined unto them, and they shall attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be equal to 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 →

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