Isaiah 47:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Isaiah 47:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 abu...
Isaiah 47:7 - 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...
Isaiah 47:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 ). Ap...
Isaiah 47:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 co...
Isaiah 47:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. So that thou didst not "Because thou didst not" - F...
Isaiah 47:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 c...
Isaiah 47:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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) th...
Isaiah 47:7 - 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.
Isaiah 47:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 t...
Isaiah 47:7 - 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...
Isaiah 47:7 - 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...
Isaiah 47:7 - 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...
Isaiah 47:7 - 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...
Isaiah 47:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Isaiah 47:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. ] Presumptio...
Isaiah 47:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Bab...
Isaiah 47:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Babylon Threatened. B. C. 708. 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so tha...
Isaiah 47:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Isaiah 47:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“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...
Isaiah 47:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Isaiah 47:7 - 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...
Isaiah 47:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 consid...
Isaiah 47:7 - 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 );...
Isaiah 47:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Humiliation of the Daughter of Babylon
Isaiah 47:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 4:29 ; Daniel 5:18-23 ; Deuteronomy 32:29 ; Ezekiel 28:12-14 ; Ezekiel 28:2 ; Ezekiel 29:3 ; Ezekiel 7:3-9 ; Isaiah 46:8 ; Isaiah 46:9 ; Isaiah 47:5 ; Jeremiah 5:31
Isaiah 47:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 afte...

Isaiah 47:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 47:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 47:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 47:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 47:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 47:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 47:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 47:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 47:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 47:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 47:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 47:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 47:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 47:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes