Isaiah 47:6
I had been provoked with my people, Had profaned mine inheritance, And given them into thy hand, …Thou shewedst them no compassion, Upon the elder, madest thou very heavy thy yoke.
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Deuteronomy 28:50a nation of fierce countenance,—who wilt not respect an elder nor to the young, show favour;
2 Chronicles 10:11Now, therefore, my father, laid upon you a heavy yoke, but, I, will add to your yoke,—My father, chastised you with whips, but, I, with scorpions,
2 Chronicles 36:17So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword, in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, elder or ancient,-all, delivered he into his hand.
Ezra 5:12But, after that our fathers had provoked the God of the heavens to wrath, he delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean,—and, this house, he destroyed, and, the people, he exiled to Babylon.
Isaiah 10:6Against an irreligious nation, will I send him, Yea against the people with whom I am wroth, will I command him,—To capture spoil And lay hold on prey, And cause them to be trodden down as the mire of the lanes.
Isaiah 14:17Who made the world like a desert? And its cities, brake down? Its prisoners, he loosed not, Each one to his home?
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 →