Isaiah 47:1
Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon: sit on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and luxurious.
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Job 2:8And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, 1 And sat upon a dungheap outside the city. 1
Psalms 137:8O Lord, thou shalt recompense them on my behalf: 1 Thy mercy, O Lord, endures forever: 1 Overlook not the works of thy hands.
Isaiah 13:1The vision which Isaiah son of Amoz saw against Babylon.
Isaiah 14:1And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and they shall rest on their land: and the stranger shall be added to them, yea, shall be added to the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 14:14I will go up above 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 →