Isaiah 47:7

And you say, I am mistress for all time, || While you have not laid these things to your heart, || You have not remembered the latter end of it.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6I have been angry against My people, I have defiled My inheritance || And I give them into your hand, || You have not appointed mercies for them, || You have made your yoke very heavy on the aged,

8And now, hear this, O luxurious one, || Who is sitting confidently—Who is saying in her heart, I [am], and none else, || I do not sit [as] a widow, nor know bereavement.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, || They would deal wisely [with] this, || They would attend to their latter end!

Isaiah 46:8Remember this, and show yourselves men, || Turn [it] back, O transgressors, to the heart.

Jeremiah 5:31The prophets have prophesied falsely, || And the priests bear rule by their means, || And My people have loved [it] so, || And what do they do at its latter end?”

Ezekiel 7:3Now [is] the end for you, || And I have sent My anger on you, || And judged you according to your ways, || And set all your abominations against you.

Ezekiel 28:12“Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, || And you have said to him, Thus said Lord YHWH: You are sealing up a measurement, || Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Daniel 4:29At the end of twelve months, on the palace of the kingdom of Babylon he has been walking;

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 →

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