Isaiah 47 Footnotes

47:6 For the Lord’s chosen people, Israel and Judah, to be defeated might be taken as evidence that the Lord is powerless to protect his own, or even that he does not exist. In this passage, the Lord explains that he allowed the Babylonians to destroy them because he, himself, was angry with them. In so doing he showed no approval of Babylon. That nation, steeped in pride and false religion, was not the judge of Judah but would itself be overthrown because of its sin. God, alone, controls the historical circumstance of his people and of all nations.