Uncovered — Either for want of raiment to cover it; or rather, by thine enemies in way of scorn and contumely. As a man — With moderation and gentleness, as those men who have not quite put off humanity use to do.
Verse Isaiah 47:3. _I WILL NOT MEET_ THEE AS _A MAN__ _- "Neither will I suffer man to intercede with me."] The verb should be pointed, or written, אפגיע _aphgia_, in Hiphil....
THY NAKEDNESS - This denotes the abject condition to which the city would be reduced. All its pride would be taken away; and it would be brought to such a state as to fill its inhabitants with the dee...
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...
NOT MEET THEE AS. MAN. not accept or regard any man....
I WILL TAKE VENGEANCE— These are the words of the God of Israel, whose province it is to take vengeance. The phrase, _I will not meet thee as a man,_ is differently understood. Some suppose, that it s...
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...
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. I WILL NOT MEET (THEE AS) A MAN - whose compassion thou mightest move, or w...
47:3 me]. (a-23) Or 'will spare no man.'...
AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it....
WILL NOT MEET, etc.] RV 'will accept no man,' i.e. none shall be spared....
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...
The inhabitants of Babylon had been very cruel to their slaves. But now the inhabitants of Babylon will themselves become slaves. And they will suffer the same shame that they caused for their former...
I WILL NOT MEET THEE AS A MAN. — The words in italics show that the phrase is difficult. Omitting them we get _I shall not meet a man, i.e.,_ there will be none to oppose me, or _I will not spare a ma...
תִּגָּל֙ עֶרְוָתֵ֔ךְ גַּ֥ם תֵּרָאֶ֖ה חֶרְפָּתֵ֑ךְ נָקָ֣ם...
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...
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a (e) man. (e) I will use no humanity nor pity toward you....
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,...
3._Thy baseness shall be discovered. _This is the conclusion of the former statement. So long as Babylon was in a flourishing condition, she preserved her reputation, and was highly honored; for wealt...
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...
THY NAKEDNESS SHALL BE UNCOVERED, YEA, THY SHAME SHALL BE SEEN,.... Not only stripped of their garments, and have nothing to cover their naked bodies, being spoiled of all by the soldiers; but should...
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a man. Ver. 3. _Thy nakedness shall be uncovered._] Thou shalt be stripped, and wo...
_Thy nakedness shall be uncovered_ Either for want of raiment to cover it, or rather, by thine enemies in the way of scorn and contumely. _I will take vengeance_ Upon thee, for thy many and great inju...
THE HUMILIATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON...
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen, a figurative expression for exposing the hidden wickedness of Babylonia. I WILL TAKE VENGEANCE, for all the evil shown to His people Isr...
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...
THY NAKEDNESS SHALL BE UNCOVERED; either, 1. For want of raiment to cover it; or rather, 2. By thine enemies in way of scorn and contumely, by comparing this place with EZEKIEL 16:37, EZEKIEL 23:29....
Isaiah 47:3 nakedness H6172 uncovered H1540 (H8735) shame H2781 seen H7200 (H8735) take H3947 (H8799) vengeance...
‘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...
_Thy nakedness shall be uncovered_ MENTAL AND MORAL NAKEDNESS Every person hath somewhat which may properly be called his nakedness or shame, in a figurative sense--such as a weak judgment, impruden...
_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...
A DREADFUL MEETING Isaiah 47:3. _I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man_. Little did Babylon think with whom she now had to contend. This was no empty threat. It was carried into fu...
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 32:35; Deuteronomy 32:41; Hebrews 10:30; Hebrews 10:31;...