Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people; I defiled my heritage 1 and gave them over into your hand, but you showed them no mercy; 1 you placed a very heavy yoke on the old people. 1

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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 in silence and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; 1 for you will no longer be called queen of kingdoms. 1

7You said, “I will rule forever as sovereign queen.” 1 You did not take these things to heart, nor did you consider how they would turn out. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:50a nation with a fierce face that does not respect the aged and does not show favor to the young.

2 Chronicles 10:11So now, although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.'”

2 Chronicles 36:17So God brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and had no compassion on young men or virgins, old men or the gray-haired. God gave them all into his hand.

Ezra 5:12However, when our ancestors enraged the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and took the people into exile in Babylon.

Isaiah 10:6I send him against an arrogant nation and against the people who bear my overflowing wrath. 1 I order him to take the spoil, to take the prey, and to trample them like mud in the streets. 1

Isaiah 14:17who made the world like a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and did not let his prisoners 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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