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Verse Isaiah 47:7. _SO THAT THOU DIDST NOT _- "Because thou didst
not"] For עד _ad_, read על _al_; so two MSS., and one edition. And
for, אחריתה _acharithah_, "the latter end _of it_," read
אחריתך _a...
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AND THOU SAIDST, I SHALL BE A LADY FOR EVER - This passage describes
the pride and self-confidence of Babylon. She was confident in her
wealth; the strength of her gates and walls; and in her abundant...
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CHAPTER 47
A Description of the Fall of Babylon
1. _Babylon's degradation announced (Isaiah 47:1)_ 2. _Israel
acknowledges the redeemer (Isaiah 47:4)_ 3. _Retribution for Babylon
(Isaiah 47:5)_ 4. Th...
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A TAUNT-SONG OF TRIUMPH ON THE FALL OF BABYLON.
Isaiah 47:1. Babylon, erroneously personified as a virgin, as if never
before captured, is bidden descend from the effeminate ease of her
throne to the...
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I SHALL BE A LADY FOR EVER— If we consider that the city of Babylon
had no less than a hundred gates made of solid brass; that its walls
were 350 feet in height, and 87 in thickness; and that six char...
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b. CONQUERING THEIR GOVERNMENTS
TEXT: Isaiah 47:1-15
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Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on
the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou
shalt...
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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.
THOU SAIDST, I SHALL BE A LADY FOREVER: (SO) THAT THO...
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AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON
1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her
helplessness to avert it....
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God used Babylon to punish his special people. But Babylon’s actions
were much worse than God intended. So now God will punish Babylon for
its great cruelty.
BABYLON’S SUDDEN DEFEAT
V8 ‘So now, lis...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 47
This short chapter is severe in the manner that it warns the proud
*Bab...
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THOU SAIDST... — The boastful confidence of Babylon in her own
perpetuity blinded her, as it had long blinded other nations, to
“these things,” _scil,_ the Divine law that pride and cruelty
bring thei...
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וַ תֹּ֣אמְרִ֔י לְ עֹולָ֖ם אֶהְיֶ֣ה
גְבָ֑רֶת ע
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Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
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THE PENALTY OF TRUSTING IN WICKEDNESS
Isaiah 47:1-15
Babylon dwelt in careless security. She was given to pleasures, Isaiah
47:8; and said in her heart that her vast crowd of astrologers,
magicians,...
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The prophecy is now addressed to Babylon itself, and in language full
of force and beauty describes its judgment. The description is
fourfold. First, the degradation of the city is foretold. From a pr...
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_Lady. Pride goes before ruin, Proverbs xvi. 18._...
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I include the whole of these verses in one reading, because the one
great subject is the same. The enemies of God and of his Church carry
with them a general feature, namely, everything of hatred, and...
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7._And thou saidst, I shall for ever _(224) _be a mistress. _Here he
censures the haughtiness of the Babylonians, in promising to
themselves perpetual dominion, and in thinking that they could not
fal...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 46, 47, AND 48.
In Chapter s 46, 47, the application is made to Babylon and to her
idols, but still as pleading for Israel as beloved of God; for
governmental...
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AND THOU SAIDST, I SHALL BE A LADY FOR EVER,.... That her monarchy
would continue in a succession of kings, that should rule over all
nations to the end of the world. So mystical Babylon, when near he...
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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.
Ver. 7. _I shall be a lady for ever._] Presumption...
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_Thou sayest, I shall be a lady for ever_ I shall always be the chief
city and mistress of the world, and shall never know any change of
condition in this respect. If we consider that the city of Baby...
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THE HUMILIATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON...
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And thou saidst, flattering herself in her own mind, I SHALL BE A LADY
FOREVER, haughtily considering her position beyond attack from every
side, in an insolence which was an insult to God, SO THAT TH...
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7-15 Let us beware of acting and speaking as Babylon did; of trusting
in tyranny and oppression; of boasting as to our abilities, relying on
ourselves, and ascribing success to our own prudence and w...
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THESE THINGS; thy cruel usages of my people, and the heavy judgments
which thou hadst reason to expect for them. _The latter end of it_; of
that lady or of Babylon, and her glory and empire, or of thy...
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Isaiah 47:7 said H559 (H8799) lady H1404 forever H5769 take H7760
(H8804) heart H3820 remember H2142 ...
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“And you said, ‘I will be a lady for ever,
So that you did not lay these things to your heart,
Nor did you remember its latter end.' ”
But Babylon was supremely arrogant (compare chapter 14). She ab...
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CONTENTS: Judgment pronounced upon Babylon.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Those who abuse their honor or power provoke God to
deprive them of it utterly and to make them sit in dust. While God
often...
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Isaiah 47:2. _Take the millstones and grind meal._ Prepare the weekly
loaf, as was anciently the custom, a work which the servants performed
with handmills.
Isaiah 47:4. _Our Redeemer, the Lord of hos...
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_And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever_
FALSE SECURITY
I. THE CAUSE OF THEIR SECURITY. They did not lay this to heart (Isaiah
47:7), did not apply it to themselves, and give it due consideratio...
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A LADY FOR EVER
Thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever. Isaiah 47:7.
A friend of mine used to teach a Sunday school class of girls in a
very poor district of a Scottish town. One Sunday she asked t...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 47:5 SIT IN SILENCE. Babylon is left with
nothing to say. Though God used the Babylonians to discipline his own
people, he still held Babylon accountable for their cruel abuses a...
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THE BOAST OF BABYLON
Isaiah 47:7. _I shall be a lady for ever_.
The utterance of proud Babylon is identical with that of the vain and
self-confident in all ages (Revelation 18:7). The delusion prospe...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 47:1
A SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER THE FALL OF BABYLON. The song divides itself
into four strophes, or stanzas—the first one of four verses ...
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Now in chapter 47, God speaks of the judgment that is going to come
against Babylon. Now this is before Babylon ever conquered them. But
God has declared that Babylon shall conquer them, but because o...
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Daniel 4:29; Daniel 5:18; Deuteronomy 32:29; Ezekiel 28:12; E
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These things — Thy cruel usages of my people, and the heavy
judgments which thou hadst reason to expect for them. Nor remember —
Thou didst not consider what might and was likely to befal thee
afterwa...