Rather, the astrologers, with whom Babylon had so many dealings (Isaiah 47:12-14) (Horsley). 20. Isaiah 47:15 Parallel Verses [â See commentary â] Isaiah 47:15, NIV: "That is all they are to you-- these you have dealt with and labored with since childhood.All of them go on in their error; there is not one that can save you." Isaiah 47:15. isa 47:15 She never recovered her ancient greatness. My soul: come not thou into their secret: unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! They â Merchants who came from several countries to trade with Babylon. Isaiah 47 - Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! The Book of Isaiah is one of the most important books of the Old Testament. Virtue, justice, and piety, will better preserve them than wealth; and without these they must be, in spite of their commercial advantages, what the once celebrated cities of antiquity now are. And so with equal ease, if he pleases, and by causes as little known as were those which destroyed Babylon, can he take away the commercial advantages of any city now on earth. God has taken away the importance and the power of Rome, once, like Babylon, the mistress of the world, by suffering the malaria to desolate all the region in her vicinity; and so with equal truth, all that contributes to the commercial importance of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, London, or Paris, are under the control of God. Instead of שׁמים הברו (which would be equivalent to הברו אשׁרא, the keri reads שׁמים הברי, cutters up of the heavens, i.e., planners or dissectors of them, from hâb, dissecare, resecare (compare the rabbinical habhârâh, a syllable, i.e., segmentum vocabuli, and possibly also the talmudic 'ēbhârı̄m, limbs of a body). The rendering adopted by Grotius, Vitringa, Lowth, Gesenius, and others, "non supererit pruna ad calendum," is a false one, if only because it is not in harmony with the figure. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. Merchants. (n) They will flee everyone to that place, which he thought by his speculations to be most sure: but that will deceive them. Isaiah Institute 7 â Godâs Servant in the Prophecy of Isaiah â Avraham Gileadi. Love of ease and pleasure: Given up to the indulgence of sensual appetite, and confident that every day should return fraught with mirth and jollity, and no sorrow interrupt the jocund hours. Isaiah was a prophet of the southern kingdom, living in a critical period of his nation. 194-196; Ezekiel 17:4.) Her cup is full. to his quarter — literally, “straight before him” (Ezekiel 1:9, Ezekiel 1:12). (4.) Isaiah 47:12Then follows the concluding strophe, which, like the first, announces to the imperial city in a triumphantly sarcastic tone its inevitable fate; whereas the intermediate strophes refer rather to the sins by which this fate has been brought upon it. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Babylon had long sat as a queen, and seen her captives prostrate at her feet, a virgin kingdom, whom no conqueror had yet subdued; but now her doom is read: into the dust she must fall low; no more her monarchs grace the throne, seized by the Persian king; no more rioting in luxury and delicacies, her miserable inhabitants are reduced to the lowest drudgery, to grind at the mill, or driven in herds as captives before their lordly masters, stripped naked without compassion or humanity; for the vengeance is from God; and he, as Israel's Redeemer, now returns the cruelty they had shown his people. After He hath sufficiently chastised Israel in His wrath, by the hand of the world-power, He will take vengeance on it for its merciless cruelty to His people. Thy sorcerers, astrologers, &c., with whom they are said to have laboured, both here and Isaiah 47:12, who also may possibly be called their merchants, because they traded so much with them, and because of their deceitful practices; for which Ephraim is called a merchant, Hosea 12:7. and Nemesis awaits her destruction. Baalbec is known only by the far-strewed ruins, and Nineveh and Babylon are stripped of all. No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Isaiah 47:14. The phrase, ‹his own quarter‘ (לעברו le‛eberô ), means, “to his own way;” they shall be driven from Babylon, and wander to other places. Note; (1.) The burden against Moab. Sinners are strangely apt to promise themselves secrecy and impunity, and this hardens their hearts against the Divine admonitions. Every one to his own quarter. Note; They who cruelly oppress God's people, however they may triumph for a moment, will find a day of awful reckoning at hand. The noise which once resounded in the streets of Babylon is silenced: and in darkness, whither they retired, or in their prison-houses, in vain they lamented the loss of their kingdom, which should be no more restored: Note; (1.) But all in vain; viz., with thy wizards and diviners, those deceivers of the people, concerning whom Cato once said, Potest Augur Augurem videre et non ridere? But all her diviners, her arts of astrology, her science, her foreigners and commerce and fertile soil, her massive walls and brazen gates — not all these combined can save her. (5.) They who are the instruments of deceiving others, shall themselves feel the heaviest strokes of vengeance. The sense here is, that the same destruction which would come upon the diviners, would come on all who had been engaged there in traffic and merchandise. All these things are in the hands of God; and he can withdraw them when he pleases. As dried stubble. that ever made them great, and can rise no more. Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured. The learned orders of the Chaldeans had their own quarter, and enjoyed all the distinction and privileges of a priestly caste. All these things are in the hands of God; and he can withdraw them when he pleases. (Diodorus ii. John Trapp Complete Commentary. Baalbec is known only by the far-strewed ruins, and Nineveh and Babylon are stripped of all. Their pride and carnal security, Isaiah 47:7-9. None shall save thee. And so the following clause may be rendered, who have been, thy merchants from thy youth. From thy youth - From the very foundation of the city. To his quarter "To his own business" - לעברו leebro . Its "merchants" or commercial brokers and partners will be dismayed (verses 9-16; Isaiah 47:15 Isaiah 47:15 Thus shall they be to you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save you.
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