Isaiah 47:1

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

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In The King James Version

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 millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.

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Cross References

Job 2:8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Psalms 18:27For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

Psalms 137:8Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.

Isaiah 13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 14:1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

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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