Isaiah 47:10

You felt protected even though you were doing many wicked things, and you said, ‘No one will see what we are doing!’ You thought that you were very wise and knew many things, and you said, ‘We are gods, and there are no others like us,’ but you deceived yourselves.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

In Context

9But both of those things will happen to you suddenly: Many of your women will become widows and many of your children will die, even though you perform much sorcery and many kinds of magic to prevent bad things from happening to you.

11So you will experience terrible things, and you will not be able to prevent them by working magic. You will experience disasters, and you will not be able to pay anyone to prevent those things from happening. ◄A catastrophe/Something terrible► will happen to you suddenly, something that you will not realize is about to happen.

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Cross References

Job 22:13So why do you say, ‘What does God know about what we are doing? He is hidden from us by dark clouds, so ◄ how can he judge us?/he certainly cannot judge us.► [RHQ]’

Psalms 52:7“Look what happened to the man who would not ask God to protect him; he trusted that his great wealth would save him; he trusted in the money that he got by wickedly taking it from others!”

Psalms 64:5They encourage each other about doing the evil things that they are planning to do; they talk with each other about where they can set traps to catch people, and they think, “No one [RHQ] will see what we are doing,

Ecclesiastes 8:8We cannot control the wind, and we cannot control when we will die. Soldiers are not permitted to go home during a battle, and evil people will not be saved by doing what is evil.

Isaiah 28:15You boast saying, “We have made an alliance with the leaders of Egypt, so we will not be killed in battles; we will never go to the place where the dead people are. When the army of Assyria attacks us, they will never defeat us, because we have made an agreement with Egypt to protect us!” But that agreement consists of a lot of lies [DOU].

Isaiah 44:20They are very stupid to worship something that if you burn it, it becomes ashes! They trust in something that cannot save them; they do not admit, “In my hand I hold something that is not really a god! [RHQ]”

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 47:8-15

Babylon Threatened. ( b. c. 708.) 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come… Read the whole commentary →

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