Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 47:5
Silent — Thro' grief and shame, as mourners use to do. The lady — The chief and glory of all kingdoms.
Silent — Thro' grief and shame, as mourners use to do. The lady — The chief and glory of all kingdoms.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. SIT THOU SILENT - the posture of mourning (; ; ). SIT THOU SILENT -...
AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it....
‘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...
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...
שְׁבִ֥י דוּמָ֛ם וּ בֹ֥אִי בַ † חֹ֖שֶׁךְ...
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...
(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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
1 Samuel 2:9; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38; Habakkuk 2:20; Isaiah 13:19;...