Isaiah 47:1

Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; 1 sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. 1 You will no longer be called dainty and delicate. 1

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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.

In Context

2Take the millstone and grind flour; remove your veil, 1 strip off your flowing robe, uncover your legs, cross the streams. 1

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Cross References

Job 2:8Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself with, and he sat down in the middle of ashes.

Psalms 18:27For you save afflicted people, but you bring down those with proud, uplifted eyes! 1

Psalms 137:8Daughter of Babylon, soon to be destroyed— 1 may the person be blessed, whoever pays you back 1 for what you have done to us. 1

Isaiah 13:1A declaration about Babylon, that Isaiah son of Amoz received: 1

Isaiah 14:1Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob; he will again choose Israel and restore them into their own land. Foreigners will join with them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High God.' 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 →

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