Isaiah 47:1
Go down, and sit in the aphar, 1 O Betulat Bat Bavel, 1 sit on the ground; there is no kisse, 1 O Bat Kasdim (Chaldeans); 1 for thou shalt no more be called 1 tender and delicate. 1
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Job 2:8And he took him a cheres (potsherd, piece of broken pottery) to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Psalms 18:27With the pure Thou wilt show Thyself pure; 1 and with the ikesh (crooked, perverted, false) Thou wilt show Thyself shrewd. 1
Psalms 137:8O Bat Bavel, who art to be destroyed, 1 ashrei shall he be, that repayeth thee 1 the gemul thou hast done to us. 1
Isaiah 13:1The massa (burden) of Bavel (Babylon), which Yeshayah Ben Amotz did see. 1
Isaiah 14:1For Hashem will have compassion on Ya'akov, and will yet choose Yisroel, and set them in their own adamah (land); and the ger (alien) shall be joined with them, and they shall unite themselves to the Bais Ya'akov.
Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; 1 I will make myself like Elyon (the Most High). 1
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 →