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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:6

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.'

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See also Isaiah 47:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 47:6. _I WAS WROTH WITH MY PEOPLE_] God, in the course of his providence, makes use of great conquerors and tyrants as his instruments to execute his judgments in the earth; he employs o...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WAS WORTH WITH MY PEOPLE - In this verse and the following, a reason is assigned why God would deal so severely with her. One of the reasons was, that in executing the punishment which he had design...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NO MERCY. Compare 2 Kings 25:5 2 Kings 25:6, 2 Kings 25:26; Jeremiah 50:17, &c. ANCIENT. elder. Compare...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I WAS WROTH WITH MY PEOPLE— The metaphor in this verse is taken from a father, who being angry with his children delivers them up to chastisement; but his anger soon subsiding, and his affection reviv...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. CONQUERING THEIR GOVERNMENTS TEXT: Isaiah 47:1-15 1 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. I WAS WROTH WITH...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WAS WROTH WITH MY PEOPLE... — The sin of Babylon was that she had gone beyond her commission as the chastiser of Israel, casting off all reverence for age, and making even the _old men_ do the hard...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    קָצַ֣פְתִּי עַל ־עַמִּ֗י חִלַּ֨לְתִּי֙ נַחֲלָתִ֔י וָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no (h) mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. (h) They abused God...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Polluted; deemed or declared unclean. But thou hast sought to gratify thy vindictive temper, in punishing my people. (Calmet) --- The sins of both called down vengeance. (Worthington)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pray the Reader to remark, with me, how graciously the Lord speaks, even when describing the degeneracy of his people. Though they had rebelled, and though the Lord was wroth with them, yet he calls...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._I was angry with my people. _This is an anticipation, by which he forewarns the Jews, as he has often done formerly, that the distressing condition of captivity was a scourge which God had inflicte...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I WAS WROTH WITH MY PEOPLE,.... The people of Israel, for their sins and transgressions, particularly their idolatries. Here begin the reasons and causes of the destruction of Babylon, and the first m...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. Ver. 6. _I was wrot...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Sit thou silent_ Through grief and shame, and as mourners used to do, Job 2:13. Cease thy vaunting and insolent speeches. _And get thee into darkness_ Thou shalt go into an obscure, disconsolate, and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I was wroth with My people, so the Lord explains the Babylonian captivity, which is hereby also prophesied, I HAVE POLLUTED MINE INHERITANCE, taking away the consecration which Israel possessed as His...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HUMILIATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 Babylon is represented under the emblem of a female in deep distress. She was to be degraded and endure sufferings; and is represented sitting on the ground, grinding at the handmill, the lowest a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I HAVE POLLUTED MINE INHERITANCE; I cast them away as an unclean thing; I stained their glory; I removed them from the Holy Land, and from the place of my presence and worship, which alone made them a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 47:5 Sit H3427 (H8798) silence H1748 go H935 (H8798) darkness H2822 daughter H1323 Chaldeans H3778 longer...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged.'” At certain stages Babylon fronted...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Samuel 24:14; Deuteronomy 28:50; Ezekiel 24:21;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Polluted — I cast them away as an unclean thing. Into thine hand — To punish them. No mercy — Thou hast exceeded the bounds of thy commission. The ancient — Who besides their common calamity were affl...

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