Isaiah 47:4-14

4 Our ¹Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.

5 "²Sit silently, and go into ³darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For you will no longer be called The ⁴queen of ⁵kingdoms.

6 "I was angry with My people, I profaned My heritage And gave them into your hand. You did not show mercy to them, On the ⁶aged you made your yoke very heavy.

7 "Yet you said, 'I will be a ⁷queen forever *.' These things you did not ⁸consider * * Nor remember the ⁹outcome of them.

8 "Now, then, hear this, you ¹⁰sensual one, Who ¹¹dwells securely, Who says in your heart, '¹²I am, and there is no one besides me. I will ¹³not sit as a widow, Nor know loss of children.'

9 "But these ¹⁴two things will come on you ¹⁵suddenly in one day: Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many ¹⁶sorceries, In spite of the great power of your spells.

10 "You felt ¹⁷secure in your wickedness and said, '¹⁸No one sees me,' Your ¹⁹wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you have said in your heart, '²⁰I am, and there is no one besides me.'

11 "But ²¹evil will come on you Which you will not know how to charm away; And disaster will fall on you For which you cannot * atone; And ²²destruction about which you do not know Will come on you ²³suddenly.

12 "Stand fast now in your ²⁴spells And in your many sorceries With which you have labored from your youth; Perhaps you will be able to profit, Perhaps you may cause trembling.

13 "You are ²⁵wearied with your many counsels; Let now the ²⁶astrologers *, Those who prophesy by the stars, Those who predict by the new moons, Stand up and ²⁷save you from what will come upon you.

14 "Behold, they have become ²⁸like stubble, ²⁹Fire burns them; They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame; There will be ³⁰no coal to warm by Nor a fire to sit before!

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Isaiah 47:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 47

This chapter is a prophecy of the destruction of Babylon, and of the Chaldeans, and declares the causes of it. The mean, low, ignominious, and miserable condition Babylon and the Chaldeans should be brought into by the Lord, the Redeemer of his people, is described, Isa 47:1-5, the causes of it are their cruelty to the Jews, Isa 47:6, their pride, voluptuousness, and carnal security, Isa 47:7,8 their sorceries and enchantments, and trust in their own wisdom, Isa 47:9,10, wherefore their destruction should come suddenly upon them, and they should not be able to put it off, Isa 47:11, their magic art, and judiciary astrology, which they boasted of, by them they could neither foresee nor withstand their ruin, which would be of no avail unto them, Isa 47:12-14, nor their merchants either, Isa 47:15.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 30

1. Isaiah 41:14
2. Isaiah 23:2; Jeremiah 8:14; Lamentations 2:10
3. Isaiah 13:10
4. Isaiah 47:7
5. Isaiah 13:19; Daniel 2:37
6. Deuteronomy 28:50
7. Isaiah 47:5
8. Isaiah 42:25; Isaiah 57:11
9. Deuteronomy 32:29; Jeremiah 5:31; Ezekiel 7:2, 3
10. Isaiah 22:13; Isaiah 32:9; Jeremiah 50:11
11. Isaiah 32:9, 11; Zephaniah 2:15
12. Is 45:5, 6, 18; Isaiah 47:10; Zephaniah 2:15
13. Revelation 18:7
14. Isaiah 13:16, 18; Isaiah 14:22
15. Psalms 73:19; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Revelation 18:8, 10
16. Isaiah 47:13; Nahum 3:4; Revelation 18:23
17. Psalms 52:7; Psalms 62:10; Isaiah 59:4
18. Isaiah 29:15; Ezekiel 8:12; Ezekiel 9:9
19. Isaiah 5:21; Isaiah 44:20
20. Isaiah 47:8
21. Isaiah 57:1
22. Isaiah 13:6; Jeremiah 51:8, 43; Luke 17:27; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
23. Isaiah 47:9
24. Isaiah 47:9
25. Jeremiah 51:58, 64
26. Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 44:25; Isaiah 47:9; Daniel 2:2, 10
27. Isaiah 47:15
28. Isaiah 5:24; Nahum 1:10; Malachi 4:1
29. Isaiah 10:17; Jer 51:30, 32, 58
30. Isaiah 44:16

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "it"
[b]. Lit "her"
[c]. Lit "it has"