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SIT THOU SILENT - The same general sentiment is expressed here as in
the preceding verses, though the figure is changed. In Isaiah 47:1,
Babylon is represented under the image of a frivolous and
delic...
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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. Th...
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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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LADY OF KINGDOMS. mistress of the kingdoms. The king of Babylon called
himself "the King Vicar" Compare Ezekiel 26:7; Daniel 2:37. So the
popes name themselves, and are so addressed when crowned. Comp...
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SIT THOU SILENT, &C.— See ch. Isaiah 13:19 Isaiah 14:4. Bishop
Newton observes, that after this destruction Babylon never recovered
its ancient splendor: From an imperial it became a tributary city;
f...
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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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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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‘Sit in silence’ means that the *Babylonians can never again give
orders to other people. ‘Prison’ signals that the *Babylonians
will also lose their liberty.
• The *Babylonian *empire was a collecti...
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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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שְׁבִ֥י דוּמָ֛ם וּ בֹ֥אִי בַ †
חֹ֖שֶׁךְ...
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Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
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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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(g) Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the
Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
(g) For shame, and hide yourself....
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The subject is again resumed at this verse, and, under the image of
Babylon, the silence and darkness, in which the enemies of God and of
his Christ shall be finally shut up, are set forth....
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5._Sit silent. _He continues the same subject, and shews that the end
of the Babylonian monarchy is at hand. As this appeared to be
incredible, he therefore repeats the same thing by a variety of
expr...
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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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SIT THOU SILENT,.... Here the speech is directed again to Babylon,
which used to be a place of noise and hurry, as well as famous and
much talked of all the world over; but now there should be a deep...
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Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the
Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
Ver. 5. _Sit thou silent._] Here he threateneth Babylon with loss of...
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_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...
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Sit thou silent, namely, in captivity, AND GET THEE INTO DARKNESS,
into the darkness of the dungeon, O DAUGHTER OF THE CHALDEANS; FOR
THOU SHALT NO MORE BE CALLED THE LADY OF KINGDOMS, the queen and
m...
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THE HUMILIATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON...
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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...
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SIT THOU SILENT, through grief and shame, and as mourners use to do,
JOB 2:13. Cease thy vaunting and insolent speeches; thou canst say
nothing for thine own justification. GET THEE INTO DARKNESS; tho...
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‘Sit there silently, and get into darkness, O daughter of the
Chaldeans,
For you will no more be called ‘the Lady of the kingdoms'.'
Here Babylon is depicted as being degraded and becoming like a low...
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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 hos...
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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...
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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 ...
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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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1 Samuel 2:9; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38; Habakkuk 2:20; Isaiah 13:19;...
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Silent — Thro' grief and shame, as mourners use to do. The lady —
The chief and glory of all kingdoms....