Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness is revealed, indeed, your reproach is seen, || I take vengeance, and I do not meet a man.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Our redeemer [is] YHWH of Hosts, || His Name [is] the Holy One of Israel.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:41If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, || And My hand lays hold on judgment, || I return vengeance to My adversaries, || And to those hating Me—I repay!
Psalms 137:8O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, || O the blessedness of him who repays to you your deed, || That you have done to us.
Isaiah 34:1Come near, you nations, to hear, || And you peoples, give attention, || The earth and its fullness hear, || The world, and all its productions.
Isaiah 59:17And He puts on righteousness as a breastplate, || And a helmet of salvation on His head, || And He puts on garments of vengeance [for] clothing, || And is covered, as [with] an upper-robe, [with] zeal.
Jeremiah 13:22And when you say in your heart, “Why have these met me?” For the abundance of your iniquity || Have your skirts been uncovered, || Have your heels suffered violence.
Jeremiah 50:27Slay all her cows, they go down to slaughter, || Woe [is] on them, for their day has come, || The time of their inspection.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 47:2-7
Babylon Threatened. ( b. c. 708.) 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. 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 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. 4 As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the… Read the whole commentary →