Isaiah 47:5

Sit thou silent, and get thee into choshech, 1 O Bat Kasdim (Chaldeans); 1 for thou shalt no more be called, 1 Geveret Mamlachot (The Lady of Kingdoms). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

In Context

4Go'aleinu, Hashem Tzva'os Shmo, 1 Kadosh Yisroel. 1

6I was angry with My people, 1 I have profaned Mine nachalah, 1 and given them into thine yad; 1 thou didst show them no rachamim (mercy); 1 upon the zaken (ancient, old) hast thou very heavily laid thy ol (yoke). 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:9He is shomer over the feet of His chasidim, 1 and the resha'im shall be silenced in choshech; 1 for by ko'ach shall no ish prevail. 1

Psalms 46:10He maketh milchamot to cease unto the end of ha'aretz; 1 He breaketh the keshet (bow), and cutteth the khanit (spear); 1 He burneth the chariots in the eish. 1

Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, 1 the tiferet ga'on Kasdim, 1 shall be as when Elohim overthrew 1 S'dom and Amora (Gomorrah). 1

Isaiah 14:23I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog, 1 and swamps of mayim; 1 and I will sweep it with the mat'ate (broom) of shmad (destruction), 1 saith Hashem Tzva'os. 1

Isaiah 47:7And thou saidst: 1 I shall be a Geveret ad l'olam (Lady forever): 1 so that thou didst not lay these things to thy lev, 1 neither didst remember her + 47:7 Babylonʼs acharit (latter end, i.e. future destruction). 1

Jeremiah 25:10Moreover I will cause to perish from them the kol sasson (voice of gladness), and the kol simchah (voice of joy), the voice of the Choson, and the voice of the Kallah, the sound of the millstones, and the ohr of the ner.

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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