Isaiah 47:1-15
AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it.... [ Continue Reading ]
AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it.... [ Continue Reading ]
GRIND] i.e. as a slave (Exodus 11:5). UNCOVER, etc.] RV 'remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg.' The overthrow of the city is set forth under the figure of a maiden carried away into slavery. PASS OVER] on the way to exile.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL NOT MEET, etc.] RV 'will accept no man,' i.e. none shall be spared.... [ Continue Reading ]
Babylon is to be thus punished because, when the Jewish exiles were in her power, she had treated them cruelly (Zechariah 1:15), and in her false security she acted as though irresponsible (Isaiah 47:7). POLLUTED] i.e. treated as common, RV 'profaned.'... [ Continue Reading ]
PERFECTION FOR] 'full measure in spite of.' SORCERIES] Babylon was renowned in the ancient world for astrology, and for the practice of all kinds of magic.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM WHENCE IT RISETH] RM 'how to charm it away.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Stand.. with] i.e. persist in.... [ Continue Reading ]
See on Isaiah 47:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
_There shall_ not _be_] 'it shall not be,' i.e. it will not be like a fire on the hearth, but a devouring conflagration.... [ Continue Reading ]