Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 47:7
These things — Thy cruel usages of my people, and the heavy judgments which thou hadst reason to expect for them. Nor remember — Thou didst not consider what might and was likely to befal thee afterward.
These things — Thy cruel usages of my people, and the heavy judgments which thou hadst reason to expect for them. Nor remember — Thou didst not consider what might and was likely to befal thee afterward.
Verse Isaiah 47:7. _SO THAT THOU DIDST NOT _- "Because thou didst not"] For עד _ad_, read על _al_; so two MSS., and one edition. And for, אחריתה _acharithah_, "the latter end _of it_," read אחריתך _a...
AND THOU SAIDST, I SHALL BE A LADY FOR EVER - This passage describes the pride and self-confidence of Babylon. She was confident in her wealth; the strength of her gates and walls; and in her abundant...
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...
THE LATTER END OF IT. the issue thereof: but some codices, with one early printed edition (Rabbinic, Mar 1517), and Vulgate, read "thy latter end". Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:29). App-92....
I SHALL BE A LADY FOR EVER— If we consider that the city of Babylon had no less than a hundred gates made of solid brass; that its walls were 350 feet in height, and 87 in thickness; and that six char...
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...
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. THOU SAIDST, I SHALL BE A LADY FOREVER: (SO) THAT THO...
AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it....
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...
THOU SAIDST... — The boastful confidence of Babylon in her own perpetuity blinded her, as it had long blinded other nations, to “these things,” _scil,_ the Divine law that pride and cruelty bring thei...
וַ תֹּ֣אמְרִ֔י לְ עֹולָ֖ם אֶהְיֶ֣ה גְבָ֑רֶת ע
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...
_Lady. Pride goes before ruin, Proverbs xvi. 18._...
I include the whole of these verses in one reading, because the one great subject is the same. The enemies of God and of his Church carry with them a general feature, namely, everything of hatred, and...
7._And thou saidst, I shall for ever _(224) _be a mistress. _Here he censures the haughtiness of the Babylonians, in promising to themselves perpetual dominion, and in thinking that they could not fal...
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...
AND THOU SAIDST, I SHALL BE A LADY FOR EVER,.... That her monarchy would continue in a succession of kings, that should rule over all nations to the end of the world. So mystical Babylon, when near he...
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that thou didst not lay these [things] to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. Ver. 7. _I shall be a lady for ever._] Presumption...
_Thou sayest, I shall be a lady for ever_ I shall always be the chief city and mistress of the world, and shall never know any change of condition in this respect. If we consider that the city of Baby...
And thou saidst, flattering herself in her own mind, I SHALL BE A LADY FOREVER, haughtily considering her position beyond attack from every side, in an insolence which was an insult to God, SO THAT TH...
THE HUMILIATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON...
7-15 Let us beware of acting and speaking as Babylon did; of trusting in tyranny and oppression; of boasting as to our abilities, relying on ourselves, and ascribing success to our own prudence and w...
THESE THINGS; thy cruel usages of my people, and the heavy judgments which thou hadst reason to expect for them. _The latter end of it_; of that lady or of Babylon, and her glory and empire, or of thy...
Isaiah 47:7 said H559 (H8799) lady H1404 forever H5769 take H7760 (H8804) heart H3820 remember H2142 ...
“And you said, ‘I will be a lady for ever, So that you did not lay these things to your heart, Nor did you remember its latter end.' ” But Babylon was supremely arrogant (compare chapter 14). She ab...
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...
_And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever_ FALSE SECURITY I. THE CAUSE OF THEIR SECURITY. They did not lay this to heart (Isaiah 47:7), did not apply it to themselves, and give it due consideratio...
A LADY FOR EVER Thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever. Isaiah 47:7. A friend of mine used to teach a Sunday school class of girls in a very poor district of a Scottish town. One Sunday she asked t...
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...
THE BOAST OF BABYLON Isaiah 47:7. _I shall be a lady for ever_. The utterance of proud Babylon is identical with that of the vain and self-confident in all ages (Revelation 18:7). The delusion prospe...
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...
Daniel 4:29; Daniel 5:18; Deuteronomy 32:29; Ezekiel 28:12; E