Isaiah 47:1

Down—and sit in the dust, O virgin Daughter of Babylon, Sit on the ground—throneless, Daughter of the Chaldeans; For thou shalt no more be called Tender and Dainty.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 millstones, and grind meal,—Put back thy veil—tuck up thy train Bare the leg, wade through streams:

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Cross References

Job 2:8And he took him a potsherd, to scrape himself therewith; he being seated in the midst of ashes.

Psalms 18:27For, as for thee, an oppressed people, thou didst save, but, looks that were lofty, layedst thou low;

Psalms 137:8O ruined daughter of Babylon,—how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us!

Isaiah 13:1The oracle on Babylon,—of which Isaiah, son of Amoz had vision:—

Isaiah 14:1For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, And will yet choose Israel, And will give them rest upon their own soil,—And the sojourner, shall join himself, unto them, And they shall attach themselves unto the house of Jacob;

Isaiah 14:14I will mount on the hills of the clouds, I will match 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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