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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:1

XLVII.

(1) Come down... — The virgin daughter of Babylon, i.e., Babylon itself, personified as till now unconquered, is called to leave her throne and sit in the dust as a menial slave. The epithets “tender” (better, perhaps, wanton) and “delicate” point to the luxury which had been identified with Babylon, and which was now to cease.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XLVII _The destruction of Babylon is denounced by a beautiful_ _selection of circumstances, in which her prosperous is_ _contrasted with her adverse condition. She is represented as a_ _te...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    COME DOWN - Descend from the throne; or from the seat of magnificence and power. The design of this verse has already been stated in the analysis. It is to foretell that Babylon would be humbled, and...

  • 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

    GROUND. earth. Hebrew. _'arez._ THERE IS NO THRONE. throneless....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    COME DOWN, AND SIT IN THE DUST, &C.— The prophet here commands Babylon to assume the habit and forms of the most abject state, most opposite to that state of honour and glory in which she had long flo...

  • 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

    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. COME DOWN, AN...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    By 900 *BC, Babylon was already famous among the nations as a most beautiful city. This was well before Nebuchadnezzar developed the city still more, 300 years later (see Daniel 4:29-30). • The city’...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    רְדִ֣י ׀ וּ שְׁבִ֣י עַל ־עָפָ֗ר בְּתוּלַת֙ בּ

  • 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

    Come down, and sit in the dust, O (a) virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no (b) throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. (a) W...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Virgin; delicate. (Menochius) --- Cyrus overthrew this empire, (Calmet) which now felt its share of misery. (Worthington)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS The subject of this chapter is the destruction of Babylon. But the, Prophet, looking into gospel times, hath in view a much greater ruin than that of the Chaldean empire; even the universal...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If we read these verses with an eye to the history of Babylon, as a people, we shall find, that the threatenings here denounced were all literally fulfilled: Babylon, which had conquered all nations,...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _A LOWLY SEAT_ ‘Come down, and sit in the dust.’ Isaiah 47:1 I. TO ISRAEL THE DIVINE SUMMONS IS TO ARISE FROM THE DUST AND SIT ON THE THRONE; TO BABYLON TO COME DOWN FROM THE THRONE AND SIT IN THE...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._Come down, and sit in the dust. _Isaiah now explains more fully what he had briefly noticed concerning the counsel of God, and the execution of it. He openly describes the destruction of Babylon; b...

  • 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

    COME DOWN, AND SIT IN THE DUST, O VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF BABYLON,.... The kingdom of Babylon is meant, as the Targum paraphrases it; or the Babylonish monarchy, called a virgin, because it had never been...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 1. _Come...

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

    _Come down_ From thy throne; _and sit in the dust_ As a mourner for thy approaching calamities; _O virgin daughter of Babylon_ Thou that art tender and delicate like a virgin. _Sit on the ground_ In a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HUMILIATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Come down and sit in the dust, degraded to the lowest depth, O VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF BABYLON, the city and country being regarded as a virgin queen; SIT ON THE GROUND, THERE IS NO THRONE, the seat of emp...

  • 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

    ISAIAH CHAPTER 47 God's judgments upon Babylon and Chaldea; for their cruelty towards God's people, ISAIAH 47:1; their pride and other sins, ISAIAH 47:7. Their enchantments shall not deliver them, ISA...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 47:1 down H3381 (H8798) sit H3427 (H8798) dust H6083 virgin H1330 daughter H1323 Babylon H894 Sit...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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 you will no longer be called tender and delicate. Take the mills...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _Come down, and sit in the dust_ DIRGE ON THE DOWNFALL OF BABYLON: Babylon is pictured as a royal lady, dethroned, led in captivity over the streams to a distant land, and there made the meanest sla...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 47:1 The VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF BABYLON... TENDER AND DELICATE is Babylon itself, portrayed as a self-indulgent girl now subjected to the harsh realities of judgment. Babylon came to...

  • 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

    Deuteronomy 28:56; Deuteronomy 28:57; Ezekiel 26:16; Ezekiel 28:17;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Down — From thy throne. Virgin — So, called, because she was tender and delicate. No throne — For thee. The empire is taken from thee, and translated to the Persians. Called — Be so....

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