Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 47:1
Down — From thy throne. Virgin — So, called, because she was tender and delicate. No throne — For thee. The empire is taken from thee, and translated to the Persians. Called — Be so.
Down — From thy throne. Virgin — So, called, because she was tender and delicate. No throne — For thee. The empire is taken from thee, and translated to the Persians. Called — Be so.
CHAPTER XLVII _The destruction of Babylon is denounced by a beautiful_ _selection of circumstances, in which her prosperous is_ _contrasted with her adverse condition. She is represented as a_ _te...
COME DOWN - Descend from the throne; or from the seat of magnificence and power. The design of this verse has already been stated in the analysis. It is to foretell that Babylon would be humbled, and...
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...
GROUND. earth. Hebrew. _'arez._ THERE IS NO THRONE. throneless....
COME DOWN, AND SIT IN THE DUST, &C.— The prophet here commands Babylon to assume the habit and forms of the most abject state, most opposite to that state of honour and glory in which she had long flo...
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...
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. COME DOWN, AN...
AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it....
By 900 *BC, Babylon was already famous among the nations as a most beautiful city. This was well before Nebuchadnezzar developed the city still more, 300 years later (see Daniel 4:29-30). • The city’...
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...
XLVII. (1) COME DOWN... — _The virgin daughter of Babylon, i.e.,_ Babylon itself, personified as till now unconquered, is called to leave her throne and sit in the dust as a menial slave. The epithet...
רְדִ֣י ׀ וּ שְׁבִ֣י עַל ־עָפָ֗ר בְּתוּלַת֙ בּ
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...
Come down, and sit in the dust, O (a) virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no (b) throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. (a) W...
_Virgin; delicate. (Menochius) --- Cyrus overthrew this empire, (Calmet) which now felt its share of misery. (Worthington)_...
If we read these verses with an eye to the history of Babylon, as a people, we shall find, that the threatenings here denounced were all literally fulfilled: Babylon, which had conquered all nations,...
CONTENTS The subject of this chapter is the destruction of Babylon. But the, Prophet, looking into gospel times, hath in view a much greater ruin than that of the Chaldean empire; even the universal...
_A LOWLY SEAT_ ‘Come down, and sit in the dust.’ Isaiah 47:1 I. TO ISRAEL THE DIVINE SUMMONS IS TO ARISE FROM THE DUST AND SIT ON THE THRONE; TO BABYLON TO COME DOWN FROM THE THRONE AND SIT IN THE...
1._Come down, and sit in the dust. _Isaiah now explains more fully what he had briefly noticed concerning the counsel of God, and the execution of it. He openly describes the destruction of Babylon; b...
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...
COME DOWN, AND SIT IN THE DUST, O VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF BABYLON,.... The kingdom of Babylon is meant, as the Targum paraphrases it; or the Babylonish monarchy, called a virgin, because it had never been...
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Ver. 1. _Come...
_Come down_ From thy throne; _and sit in the dust_ As a mourner for thy approaching calamities; _O virgin daughter of Babylon_ Thou that art tender and delicate like a virgin. _Sit on the ground_ In a...
Come down and sit in the dust, degraded to the lowest depth, O VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF BABYLON, the city and country being regarded as a virgin queen; SIT ON THE GROUND, THERE IS NO THRONE, the seat of emp...
THE HUMILIATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON...
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...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 47 God's judgments upon Babylon and Chaldea; for their cruelty towards God's people, ISAIAH 47:1; their pride and other sins, ISAIAH 47:7. Their enchantments shall not deliver them, ISA...
Isaiah 47:1 down H3381 (H8798) sit H3427 (H8798) dust H6083 virgin H1330 daughter H1323 Babylon H894 Sit...
‘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 you will no longer be called tender and delicate. Take the mills...
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...
_Come down, and sit in the dust_ DIRGE ON THE DOWNFALL OF BABYLON: Babylon is pictured as a royal lady, dethroned, led in captivity over the streams to a distant land, and there made the meanest sla...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 47:1 The VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF BABYLON... TENDER AND DELICATE is Babylon itself, portrayed as a self-indulgent girl now subjected to the harsh realities of judgment. Babylon came to...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:56; Deuteronomy 28:57; Ezekiel 26:16; Ezekiel 28:17;...