Isaiah 47:6

I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

I was wroth with my people; I have ... given them into thine hand: thou didst show them no mercy - reason for God's vengeance on Babylon: in executing God's will against His people, she had done so with wanton cruelty (, etc.; ; ; ).

Polluted my inheritance - (.)

Upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke - even old age was disregarded by the Chaldeans, who treated all alike with cruelty (; ) (Rosenmuller). Or, "the ancient" means Israel, worn out with calamities in the latter period of its history (), as its earlier stage of history is called its "youth" (; ).