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

Bible Comments

“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 which they have laboured, all their magic and sorcery, will have been burned up along with the practitioners. Those who have traded with them even from youth will wander off back to their own trading centre. So they will have no religious guides, and no trading partners. They will have no one to look to for deliverance.

Their trading partners might have been potential allies. But God will make them lose interest in the partnership so that they do nothing, simply ignoring Babylon's need. Such is what happens to those who think and behave like Babylon. Babylon will be deserted by all. Babylon is doomed.

Isaiah 47:15

15 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.