"Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail."
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STAND NOW WITH THY ENCHANTMENTS - (See the notes at Isaiah 47:9). This
is evidently sarcastic and ironical. It is a call on those who
practiced the arts of magic to stand forth, and to show whether th...
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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. _...
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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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STAND NOW WITH. Persist in.
PREVAIL. strike terror....
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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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Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy
sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou
shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
(STAND -...
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AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON
1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her
helplessness to avert it....
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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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IF SO BE THOU SHALT BE ABLE... — The words come with a subtle tone
of irony. _Persevere in thy enchantments_ ... _perchance thou wilt be
able to profit, perchance thou wilt strike terror._...
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עִמְדִי ־נָ֤א בַ חֲבָרַ֨יִךְ֙ וּ בְ
רֹ֣ב כְּשָׁפַ֔יִךְ בַּ אֲשֶׁ֥ר
יָגַ֖עַתְּ מִ נְּעוּרָ֑יִךְ אוּלַ֛י...
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Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1
CHAPTER IX
FOUR POINTS OF A TRUE RELIGION
Isaiah 43:1 - Isaiah 48:1
WE have now surveyed the governing truths of Isaiah 40:1; Isaia
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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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Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy
sorceries, in which thou hast (l) laboured from thy youth; if thou
shalt be able to profit, if thou mayest prevail.
(l) He derides their...
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CHAPTER XLVII....
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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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12._Stand now amidst thy divinations. _The Prophet speaks as we are
accustomed to speak to desperate men, on whom no warnings produce any
good effect; “Do as thou art wont to do; in the end thou shalt...
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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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STAND NOW WITH THINE ENCHANTMENTS, AND WITH THE MULTITUDE OF THY
SORCERIES,.... An ironic expression, deriding those evil arts, bidding
defiance to them, calling upon the masters of them to do their u...
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Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy
sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou
shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Ver. 12. _S...
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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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Babylon's Vain Attempt to Avert the Threatened Destruction...
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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 wi...
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STAND: this word notes either,
1. Continuance. Persist or go on in these practices. Or,
2. Their gesture. For those that inquired of their gods by any of
these superstitious practices used to stand;...
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Isaiah 47:12 Stand H5975 (H8798) enchantments H2267 multitude H7230
sorceries H3785 which H834 labored H3021 (H8804) able H3201 (H8799)
profit H3276 (H8687) prevail H6206 (H8799)
Isaiah 47:9-10, Isai...
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“Stand now with your enchantments,
And with the multitude of your sorceries,
In which you have laboured from your youth.
If so be that you will be able to profit.
If so be that you may prevail.
Y...
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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 ho...
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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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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 (Isaiah
47:1); the second of three (Isaiah 47:5)...
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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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2 Thessalonians 2:9; Acts 13:8; Daniel 5:7; Exodus 7:11; Exodus 8:18;
Exodus 8:19; Exodus 8:7; Exodus 9:11; Isaiah 19:3; Isaiah 44:25;...
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Stand — Persist in these practices. Laboured — From the beginning
of thy kingdom. For the Chaldeans in all ages were famous for the
practice of these arts....