Isaiah 47:8-15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 47:7-15

Babylon, now doomed to ruin, is here justly upbraided with her pride, luxury, and security, in the day of her prosperity, and the confidence she had in her own wisdom and forecast, and particularly in the prognostications and counsels of the astrologers. These things are mentioned both to justify God in bringing these judgments upon her and to mortify her, and put her to so much the greater shame, under these judgments; for, when God comes forth to take vengeance, glory belongs to him, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 47:8

Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures ,.... To carnal lusts and pleasures; gratifying her sensual appetite; indulging herself in everything that was agreeable to the senses; abounding in delicacies, and living deliciously; as is said of mystical Babylon, Revelation 18:4 , particularly given to venereal pleasures. Curtius says F7 Hist. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 1. , "no city was more corrupt in its manners, or furnished to irritate or allure to immoderate pleasures.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 47:9

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment on one day ,.... Suddenly, at once, at one and the same time. The destruction of Babylon was very sudden; the city was taken by surprise, before the inhabitants were aware of it, while the king and his nobles were regaling themselves at a feast; that very night Belshazzar was slain, and Darius the Mede took the kingdom, Daniel 5:30 and so those two things she boasted of would never be her lot came upon her together and at once: "the loss... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 47:10

For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness ,.... In wealth and power wickedly obtained; in political schemes wickedly contrived; in her ambition and pride, tyranny and cruelty; and especially in her wicked arts of astrology, divination, and magic: thou hast said, none seeth me ; lay her schemes of policy, which she thought so deeply laid, as not to be discovered; perform her magic arts, which were secretly done, and other her wicked actions done in the dark; but nothing can be hid from the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 47:11

Therefore shall evil come upon thee ,.... The evil of punishment, a great calamity; so Nebuchadnezzar foretold, as Abydenus relates F15 Ib. c. 41. p. 456. , that συμφορη , a calamity, should come upon the Babylonians; a day of evil, because of the above sins Babylon was guilty of: thou shall not know from whence it riseth ; from what quarter it will come, little dreaming of Cyrus, with whom the Chaldeans had had no quarrel. So mystical Babylon will not know from whence her ruin... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 47:12

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries ,.... An ironic expression, deriding those evil arts, bidding defiance to them, calling upon the masters of them to do their utmost by them: wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth ; from the infancy of their state; as soon as their monarchy was founded, or they became a people, they were given to these practices, and were famous for them; and in which, no doubt, many among them were brought up from their youth;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 47:13

Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels ,.... Taken of astrologers, diviners, and soothsayers; who were never able to give any satisfactory answers to questions put to them, or to give good advice in cases of emergency; as appears from Nebuchadnezzar's consultation with them about his dream; and Belshazzar's about the handwriting upon the wall, which was the very night that the city was taken, Daniel 2:2 , let now the astrologers ; or, "viewers of the heavens" F19 הוברי ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 47:14

Behold, they shall be as stubble, the fire shall burn them ,.... That is, these astrologers and diviners shall be like stubble; weak as that, as the Targum; they shall be no more able to stand before the fire of divine wrath, or before the judgments of God, by the hands of the Medes and Persians, than stubble can stand before a consuming fire: they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame ; from those dreadful calamities that shall come upon them like flames of fire; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 47:15

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 time of danger as useless as stubble, or a blaze of straw: even thy merchants from thy youth ; either the above astrologers and diviners, who had been with them from the beginning of their state; and who had made merchandise of them, and were become rich as merchants by telling fortunes, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 47:9

These two things shall come to thee in a moment - That is, suddenly. Belshazzar was slain; thus the city became metaphorically a widow, the husband - the governor of it, being slain. In the time in which the king was slain, the Medes and Persians took the city, and slew many of its inhabitants, see Daniel 5:30 , Daniel 5:31 . When Darius took the city, he is said to have crucified three thousand of its principal inhabitants. In their perfection "On a sudden" - Instead of בתמם ... read more

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