Isaiah 47:6

I 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

In Context

5Sit 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

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

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:50A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not respect the zakenʼs person, nor show favor to the na'ar;

2 Chronicles 10:11For whereas Avi put an ol kaved (a heavy yoke) upon you, I will add more to your ol (yoke). Avi chastised you with shotim (whips), but I will chastise you with akrabim (scorpions).

2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore He brought upon them Melech Kasdim, who slaughtered their bochurim with the cherev in their Beis Mikdash, and had no pity upon bochur or betulah, zaken or the aged man. He gave them all into his yad.

Ezra 5:12But because Avoteinu had provoked the Elohei Shomayim unto them into the hand of Nevukhadnetzar Melech Bavel, the Kasdai (Chaldean), who destroyed this Beis, and carried the people away into the Golus of Bavel (Babylon).

Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a Goy Chanef, 1 and against the people of My wrath will I give him a charge, 1 to take the spoil, and to take the plunder, 1 and to tread them down like the chomer chutzot (mire of the streets). 1

Isaiah 14:17That made the tevel (world) like a midbar (desert), 1 and overthrew the towns thereof; 1 that would not release his prisoners to go home? 1

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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