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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_ o...
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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...
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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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THY MERCHANTS. Compare Revelation 18:11. t
HEY SHALL WANDER. stagger onward.
ONE. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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
mark...
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כֵּ֥ן הָיוּ ־לָ֖ךְ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָגָ֑עַתְּ
סֹחֲרַ֣יִךְ מִ נְּעוּרַ֗יִךְ אִ֤ישׁ
לְ עֶבְרֹו֙ תָּע֔וּ אֵ֖ין
מֹושִׁיעֵֽךְ
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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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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...
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_Merchants. The city was well situated for trade, chap. xiii. 20.
(Diodorus ii.)_...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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_ 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...
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Isaiah 47:15 labored H3021 (H8804) merchants H5503 (H8802) youth H5271
wander H8582 (H8804) one H376 quarter H5676 save H3467 (H8688)
thy merchants - Isaiah 56:11; Ezekiel 27:12-25; Revelation 18:11-...
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“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 whi...
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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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Ezekiel 27:12; Isaiah 56:11; Jeremiah 51:6; Revelation 18:11;
Revelation 18:15...
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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...