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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:15

Thy merchants, from thy youth... — The commerce of Babylon is specially prominent in all descriptions. (Comp. Herod. i. 194-196; Ezekiel 17:4.) The time was coming when those who had thronged her markets would desert her and leave her to her desolation.


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See also Isaiah 47:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 47:15. _TO HIS QUARTER _- "To his own business"] לעברו _leebro_. Expositors give no very good account of this word in this place. In a MS. it was at first לעבדו _leabdo, to his servant_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WITH WHOM THOU HAST LABORED - The multitude of diviners, astrologers, and merchants, with whom thou hast been connected and employed. The idea is, that Babylon had been the mart where all of them had...

  • 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

    THY MERCHANTS. Compare Revelation 18:11. t HEY SHALL WANDER. stagger onward. ONE. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THUS SHALL THEY BE UNTO THEE, &C.— _Thus shall they serve thee, upon whom thou hast spent thy pains; thy negociators, with whom thou hast dealt from thy youth._ See Bishop Lowth's translation. See als...

  • 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

    Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. THUS SHALL THEY BE UNTO THEE WITH WHOM...

  • 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

    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

    כֵּ֥ן הָיוּ ־לָ֖ךְ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָגָ֑עַתְּ סֹחֲרַ֣יִךְ...

  • 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

    Thus shall they be to thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his (n) quarter; none shall save thee. (n) They will flee everyone to tha...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Merchants. The city was well situated for trade, chap. xiii. 20. (Diodorus ii.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS ONE of the most comprehensive improvements to be made at the close of this chapter, in the view of the very different termination set forth to the people of God, and to his enemies, may b...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._So shal they be to thee. _After having threatened destruction to those astronomers, he again retums to the Babylonians, and threatens that they must not look for assistance from that quarter from...

  • 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

    THUS SHALL THEY BE UNTO THEE WITH WHOM THOU HAST LABOURED,.... In training them up in those arts, and in consulting with them in cases of difficulty; in which they were of no service, and now in time...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. Ver. 15. _Thus shall they be unto th...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Babylon's Vain Attempt to Avert the Threatened Destruction...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus shall they, these men upon whom the Babylonians depended, BE UNTO THEE WITH WHOM THOU HAST LABORED, EVEN THY MERCHANTS, FROM THY YOUTH, for the astrologers and wizards and magicians did a flouris...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    _ Thus_, such comfortless and helpless creatures, shall they be; either, 1. Thy merchants, as it follows, with whom thou hast trafficked. Or, 2. Thy sorcerers, astrologers, &c., with whom they are sa...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 47:15 labored H3021 (H8804) merchants H5503 (H8802) youth H5271 wander H8582 (H8804) one H376 quarter...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Thus will be the things to you in which you have laboured. Those who have traded with you from your youth, Will wander every one to his quarter. There will be none to save you.” The things in whic...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    Ezekiel 27:12; Isaiah 56:11; Jeremiah 51:6; Revelation 18:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thus — Such comfortless and helpless creatures. They — Merchants who came from several countries to trade with Babylon. And the verse may be thus rendered; Thus (vain and unprofitable) shall they (thy...

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