Isaiah 47:15

Such, have they become to thee, with whom thou hast wearied thyself,—Thy merchants—from thy youth, will every man stagger straight onwards—There is none to save thee.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

In Context

14Lo! they have become as straw—a fire, hath burned them up, They shall not deliver their own soul from the grasp of the flame,—There is, no live coal to warm them, nor blaze to sit before.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 51:6Flee out of the midst of Babylon And deliver ye every man his own life, Be not cut off in her punishment,—For it is Yahweh’s, time of avenging, A recompense, is he repaying unto her.

Revelation 18:11And, the merchants of the earth, weep and grieve over her, because, their cargo, no one, buyeth any more:

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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