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Verse Isaiah 47:13. _FROM_ THESE THINGS - "What are the events"] For
מאשר _measher_, read מה אשר _mah asher_, so the _Septuagint_,
"what is to happen to thee....
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THOU ART WEARIED - Thou hast practiced so many arts, and practiced
them so long, that thou art exhausted in them. The ‘counsels’ here
referred to, are those which the astrologers and diviners would ta...
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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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ASTROLOGERS. The scientists of Babylon were divided into three
classes: writers of (1) charms to be placed on afflicted persons or
houses; (2) formulae of incantations; (3) records of observations
whi...
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THOU ART WEARIED, &C.— _Thou art nauseated with the multitude of thy
devices._...
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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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Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the
astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up,
and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
(THOU...
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47:13 heavens, (d-16) i.e. astrologers. stars, (e-21) i.e.
prognosticators....
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All through the ages, people have believed in *astrology. Even modern
newspapers and magazines regularly include ‘What the stars tell
us’.
But the press often confuses readers. Different papers do no...
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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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LET NOW THE ASTROLOGERS... — The three words describe two aspects of
the same art — (1) the _dividers of the heavens,_ assigning stellar
influences to the signs of the Zodiac; (2) the “star-gazers,”
f...
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נִלְאֵ֖ית בְּ רֹ֣ב עֲצָתָ֑יִךְ
יַעַמְדוּ ־נָ֨א...
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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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_Months, to tell which would prove lucky, Esther iii. 7._...
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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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13._Thou hast wearied thyself. _He now declares still more plainly
what he had formerly expressed in somewhat obscure language; that all
the schemes which Babylon had previously adopted would lead to...
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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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THOU ART WEARIED IN THE MULTITUDE OF THY COUNSELS,.... Taken of
astrologers, diviners, and soothsayers; who were never able to give
any satisfactory answers to questions put to them, or to give good
a...
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Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the
astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up,
and save thee from [these things] that shall come upon thee.
Ver. 13...
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_Stand now with thine enchantments_ Persist in these practices.
_Wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth_ From the beginning of thy
kingdom. For the Chaldeans in all ages were famous, or rather
infa...
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Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, driven to despair
by the fruitless quest for means and methods to meet the threatened
punishment and to avert it. LET NOW THE ASTROLOGERS, those vers...
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Babylon's Vain Attempt to Avert the Threatened Destruction...
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ASTROLOGERS:
_ Heb._ viewers of the heavens
THE MONTHLY PROGNOSTICATORS:
_ Heb._ that give knowledge concerning the months...
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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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THOU ART WEARIED; thou hast spent thy time and strength in going from
one to another, in trying all manner of experiments, and all to no
purpose. STAND UP, AND SAVE THEE to succour thee, or to inquire...
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Isaiah 47:13 wearied H3811 (H8738) multitude H7230 counsels H6098
astrologers H1895 (H8802) H8064 stargazers H2374
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Isaiah 47:11
I. Look at this picture of utter and most painful bewilderment. It is
the necessary and inevitable result of sin.
II. Hear the Divine challenge addressed to the false powers in which
we...
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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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_Therefore shall evil come upon thee_
SUDDEN DESTRUCTION
The predicted calamity is represented as a great storm, which suddenly
arises in eastern countries, and blows with such violence as to Spread...
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A CALL TO THE UNRIGHTEOUS
(_Fourth Sunday in Advent._)
Isaiah 46:12. _Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted, &c._
Referred at first to local and national circumstances, but addressed
to the men of every...
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FALSE SECURITIES
Isaiah 47:11, _Therefore shall evil come upon thee, &c._
I. _Look at this picture of utter and painful bewilderment_. This is
the necessary and inevitable result of sin.
1. We have...
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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 2:2; Daniel 5:15; Daniel 5:16; Daniel 5:30; Daniel 5:7;...
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Wearied — Thou hast spent thy time and strength in going from one to
another, and all to no purpose....