Isaiah 47:1
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin, daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldaeans! For thou shalt no longer be called the tender and delicate!
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Job 2:8And he took a potsherd to scrape himself withal, and sat down among the ashes.
Psalms 18:27For thou savest the afflicted people, But the haughty countenance thou bringest down.
Psalms 137:8O daughter of Babylon, thou destroyer! Happy be he who requiteth thee As thou hast dealt with us!
Isaiah 13:1A prophecy concerning Babylon, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
Isaiah 14:1For Jehovah will have compassion upon Jacob, And will again set his love upon Israel, And cause them to rest in his own land. And strangers shall join themselves to them, And cleave to the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the height of 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 →