Isaiah 2:7

7 Their land has been filled with silver and gold; there are a great many treasures there. Their land has been filled with horses; there are many chariots there.

Isaiah 2:7 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 2:7

Their land also is full of silver and gold
Procured by pardons, indulgences, masses, praying souls out of purgatory, tithes, annates, Peter's pence

neither [is there any] end of their treasures;
laid up in the pope's coffers, in their churches, monasteries, and convents:

their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of
their chariots;
for the cardinals, archbishops, bishops to ride on and in. Horses and chariots are mentioned among the wares and merchandise of Rome, in ( Revelation 18:13 ) .

Isaiah 2:7 In-Context

5 Come, family of Jacob, and let us follow the way of the Lord.

6 Lord, you have left your people, the family of Jacob, because they have become filled with wrong ideas from people in the East. They try to tell the future like the Philistines, and they have completely accepted those foreign ideas.

7 Their land has been filled with silver and gold; there are a great many treasures there. Their land has been filled with horses; there are many chariots there.

8 Their land is full of idols. The people worship these idols they made with their own hands and shaped with their own fingers.

9 People will not be proud any longer but will bow low with shame. God, do not forgive them.