Isaiah 47:8-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 47:11

Therefore shall evil come upon thee . Connect this with the first clause of Isaiah 47:10 , "Thou hast trusted in thine own evil (moral), therefore shall evil (physical) fall upon thee." The same word, ra ' ah , is used in both places. Thou shalt not know from whence it riseth . So the Vulgate, Vitringa, Gesenius, and Dr. Kay. But the bulk of modern commentators (Hitzig, Ewald, Delitzsch, Nagelsbach, Weir, Cheyne) render, "Thou wilt not know how to charm it away. " Both meanings... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 47:11

Man's helplessness in presence of Divine calamities. The point impressed is that disaster takes unexpected and overwhelming forms, against which the wisest man fails to take precautions. Man can only affect the smallest of circumstances that are put into his control, and the few persons who are under his immediate influence. But each one of us belongs to a great whole, and is affected by great forces, which God alone controls. We are carried whither we would not. We are borne down by evils... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 47:12

Stand now. The fourth and concluding strophe now begins; it opens, like the third, with a single imperative. It has, as Mr. Cheyne observes, "a strongly ironical tinge, reminding us of Elijah's language to the priests of Baal in 1 Kings 18:27 ." The irony is, however, confined to the first half ( 1 Kings 18:12 , 1 Kings 18:13 ); giving place in 1 Kings 18:14 and 1 Kings 18:15 to a scathing sentence of judgment and ruin. Enchantments … sorceries; rather, spells , enchantments ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 47:13

Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Mr. Cheyne's rendering is more intelligible, "Thou hast wearied thyself with the multitude of thy consultations.'' Those at the head of affairs had consulted the diviners of all classes, till they were utterly weary of so doing (compare the " consultations " of Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar with such persons, Daniel 2:2-11 ; Daniel 5:7 , Daniel 5:8 ). Yet let one further effort be made. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 47:13

Many counsellors. "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels." The mind of man will seek counsel. For men everywhere, in the old Athenian groves and gardens, and in the fellowship of modern clubs and associations, will seek for "opinion" to guide and help them. They are so slow to trust alone to conscience and to God. I. THE UNSATISFYING ORACLES . "Thou art wearied." You have tried them so often without results of guidance and good. All is vain. Men go here and there,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 47:13

The weariness of self-service. "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels." Babylon was trusting self, trying to find its own way out of calamities; and it was proving what weary, hopeless work that always is. Astrologer was the final resource of the despairing Babylonians. I. THE WEARINESS OF VARIETY . A vain searching for some new device. A restless dissatisfaction with everything. II. THE WEARINESS OF MULTIPLICITY . Bewildered with the many helpers, who yet... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 47:14

Behold, they shall be as stubble (comp. Isaiah 5:24 ; Isaiah 40:24 ; Isaiah 41:2 ). A favourite metaphor with Isaiah for extreme weakness and incapacity of resistance. In Isaiah 5:24 it is connected, as here, with fire. No doubt in Palestine, as elsewhere, an accidental fire from time to time caught hold of a stubble-field, and speedily reduced it to a mass of blackened ashes. The threat here is that God's wrath shall similarly sweep over Babylon. They shall not deliver themselves... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 47:15

Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured . The foreigners who have participated in the toils and labours of Babylon shall share in her punishment. The flame of judgment shall not spare even them. Even thy merchants. Babylonian commerce is the subject of an important chapter in Heeren's 'Asiatic Nations', and is discussed also in the present writer's 'Egypt and Babylon'. It was carried on both by land and sea, and was very extensive, including both a large import and a... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 47:8

Therefore hear now this - The prophet proceeds, in this verse and the following, to detail more particularly the sins of Babylon, and to state the certainty of the punishment which would come upon her. In the previous verses, the denunciation of punishment had been figurative. It had been represented under the image of a lady delicately trained and nurtured, doomed to the lowest condition of life, and compelled to stoop to the most menial offices. Here the prophet uses language without figure,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 47:9

In a moment, in one day - This is designed, undoubtedly, to describe the suddenness with which Babylon would be destroyed. It would not decay slowly, and by natural causes, but it would not decay slowly, and by natural causes, but it would be suddenly and unexpectedly destroyed. How strikingly this was fulfilled, it is not needful to pause to state (see Isaiah 13:0, note; Isaiah 14:1, note) In the single night in which Babylon was taken by Cyrus, a death-blow was given to all her greatness and... read more

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