Isaiah 47:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. ”

• Isaiah 47:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  With whom thou hast labored - The multitude of diviners, astrologers, and merchants, with whom thou hast been connected and employed. The idea is, that Babylon had been the mart where all of them...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thus shall they be to thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his (n) quarter; none shall save thee. (n) They will flee everyone to th...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  A Taunt-Song of Triumph on the Fall of Babylon. Isaiah 47:1-7 . Babylon, erroneously personified as a virgin, as if never before captured, is bidden descend from the effeminate ease of her throne...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  thy merchants. Compare Revelation 18:11-19 . t hey shall wander . stagger onward. one. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14.

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  15. So shal they be to thee. After having threatened destruction to those astronomers, he again retums to the Babylonians, and threatens that they must not look for assistance from that quar...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. To his quarter "To his own business"...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Thus shall they be unto thee, &c.— Thus shall they serve thee, upon whom thou hast spent thy pains; thy negociators, with whom thou hast dealt from thy youth. See Bishop Lowth's translation....

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. Thus shall they be unto thee wit...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  An Ode on the Humiliation of Babylon 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it.

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thy merchants, from thy youth... — The commerce of Babylon is specially prominent in all descriptions. (Comp. Herod. i. 194-196; Ezekiel 17:4 .) The time was coming when those who had thronged her...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 CHAPTER IX FOUR POINTS OF A TRUE RELIGION Isaiah 43:1-28 - Isaiah 48:1-22 WE have now surveyed the...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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, mag...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 p...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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, an...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured ,.... In training them up in those arts, and in consulting with them in cases of difficulty; in which they were of no service, and now in ti...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. Ver. 15. Thus shall they be unto...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Stand now with thine enchantments Persist in these practices. Wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth From the beginning of thy kingdom. For the Chaldeans in all ages were famous, or rather inf...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Babylon Threatened. B. C. 708.       7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so tha...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thus , such comfortless and helpless creatures, shall they be; either, 1. Thy merchants, as it follows, with whom thou hast trafficked. Or, 2. Thy sorcerers, astrologers, &c., with whom the...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “Thus will be the things to you in which you have laboured. Those who have traded with you from your youth, Will wander every one to his quarter. There will be none to save you.” The things in wh...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  FALSE SECURITIES Isaiah 47:11-15 , Therefore shall evil come upon thee, &c. I. Look at this picture of utter and painful bewilderment . This is the necessary and inevitable result of sin....

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Isaiah 47:11-15 I. Look at this picture of utter and most painful bewilderment. It is the necessary and inevitable result of sin. II. Hear the Divine challenge addressed to the false powers in wh...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Therefore shall evil come upon thee Sudden destruction The predicted calamity is represented as a great storm, which suddenly arises in eastern countries, and blows with such violence as to Spr...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 47:1-23 A SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER THE FALL OF BABYLON . The song divides itself into four strophes, or stanzas—the first one of four verses ( Isaiah 47:1-23 );...

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• Isaiah 47:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Babylon's Vain Attempt to Avert the Threatened Destruction

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 27:12-25 ; Isaiah 56:11 ; Jeremiah 51:6-9 ; Revelation 18:11-19 ; Revelation 18:15-17

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• Isaiah 47:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Thus — Such comfortless and helpless creatures. They — Merchants who came from several countries to trade with Babylon. And the verse may be thus rendered; Thus (vain and unprofitable) shall they (...

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