George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 47:6
Polluted; deemed or declared unclean. But thou hast sought to gratify thy vindictive temper, in punishing my people. (Calmet) --- The sins of both called down vengeance. (Worthington)
Polluted; deemed or declared unclean. But thou hast sought to gratify thy vindictive temper, in punishing my people. (Calmet) --- The sins of both called down vengeance. (Worthington)
Verse Isaiah 47:6. _I WAS WROTH WITH MY PEOPLE_] God, in the course of his providence, makes use of great conquerors and tyrants as his instruments to execute his judgments in the earth; he employs o...
I WAS WORTH WITH MY PEOPLE - In this verse and the following, a reason is assigned why God would deal so severely with her. One of the reasons was, that in executing the punishment which he had design...
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...
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...
NO MERCY. Compare 2 Kings 25:5 2 Kings 25:6, 2 Kings 25:26; Jeremiah 50:17, &c. ANCIENT. elder. Compare...
I WAS WROTH WITH MY PEOPLE— The metaphor in this verse is taken from a father, who being angry with his children delivers them up to chastisement; but his anger soon subsiding, and his affection reviv...
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...
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...
AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it....
Babylon is to be thus punished because, when the Jewish exiles were in her power, she had treated them cruelly (Zechariah 1:15), and in her false security she acted as though irresponsible (Isaiah 47:...
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...
God used Babylon to punish his special people. But Babylon’s actions were much worse than God intended. So now God will punish Babylon for its great cruelty. BABYLON’S SUDDEN DEFEAT V8 ‘So now, lis...
I WAS WROTH WITH MY PEOPLE... — The sin of Babylon was that she had gone beyond her commission as the chastiser of Israel, casting off all reverence for age, and making even the _old men_ do the hard...
קָצַ֣פְתִּי עַל ־עַמִּ֗י חִלַּ֨לְתִּי֙ נַחֲלָתִ֔י וָ...
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
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,...
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...
I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no (h) mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. (h) They abused God...
I pray the Reader to remark, with me, how graciously the Lord speaks, even when describing the degeneracy of his people. Though they had rebelled, and though the Lord was wroth with them, yet he calls...
6._I was angry with my people. _This is an anticipation, by which he forewarns the Jews, as he has often done formerly, that the distressing condition of captivity was a scourge which God had inflicte...
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...
I WAS WROTH WITH MY PEOPLE,.... The people of Israel, for their sins and transgressions, particularly their idolatries. Here begin the reasons and causes of the destruction of Babylon, and the first m...
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. Ver. 6. _I was wrot...
_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...
THE HUMILIATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON...
I was wroth with My people, so the Lord explains the Babylonian captivity, which is hereby also prophesied, I HAVE POLLUTED MINE INHERITANCE, taking away the consecration which Israel possessed as His...
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...
I HAVE POLLUTED MINE INHERITANCE; I cast them away as an unclean thing; I stained their glory; I removed them from the Holy Land, and from the place of my presence and worship, which alone made them a...
Isaiah 47:5 Sit H3427 (H8798) silence H1748 go H935 (H8798) darkness H2822 daughter H1323 Chaldeans H3778 longer...
“I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged.'” At certain stages Babylon fronted...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Samuel 24:14; Deuteronomy 28:50; Ezekiel 24:21;...
Polluted — I cast them away as an unclean thing. Into thine hand — To punish them. No mercy — Thou hast exceeded the bounds of thy commission. The ancient — Who besides their common calamity were affl...