UIsaya 47:7

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7 Ubusithi, Ndiya kuba yinkosikazi ngonaphakade; wada akwakunyamekela oko ngentliziyo, akwalikhumbula ikamva lakho oko.

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thou saidst: Isaiah 47:5, Ezekiel 28:2, Ezekiel 28:12-14, Ezekiel 29:3, Daniel 4:29, Daniel 5:18-23

so that: Isaiah 46:8, Isaiah 46:9, Deuteronomy 32:29, Jeremiah 5:31, Ezekiel 7:3-9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:27 - lest their 2 Samuel 2:27 - unless Psalms 10:6 - not Psalms 30:6 - And Ecclesiastes 7:2 - living Isaiah 14:13 - thou Isaiah 32:9 - ye women Isaiah 47:1 - thou shalt Isaiah 57:1 - no man Jeremiah 49:4 - gloriest Jeremiah 51:53 - mount Lamentations 1:9 - she remembereth Daniel 4:4 - was Amos 6:3 - put Obadiah 1:3 - saith Habakkuk 2:9 - set Zephaniah 2:15 - the rejoicing Zechariah 1:15 - General Malachi 2:2 - if ye will not lay James 4:16 - General Revelation 18:7 - much she

Gill's Notes on the 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 her ruin, will say, "I sit a queen----and shall see no sorrow", Revelation 18:7:

so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart; neither the sins she had been guilty of, particularly in acting the cruel part towards the people of God; nor the evils foretold should come upon her; these she did not consider of and think upon, so as to repent of the one, and prevent the other:

neither didst remember the latter end of it; or, "thy latter end" f; either her own latter end, the end of her wickedness which she had committed, as Jarchi; the end of her pride, that she should be humbled, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi; or her ruin and destruction, the end she should come to at last; this she never thought of, but put this evil day far from her: or she remembered not the latter end of Jerusalem, who, though a lady too, fell by her own hand; which sense Kimchi takes notice of: or she did not consider what would befall the Jews in the latter day; that God would put an end to their calamities, and deliver them out of Babylon, as he had foretold.

f אחריתה "novissimi tui", Vatablus; who observes a various reading. In some copies it is אחריתך, "thy latter end"; which is followed by the Vulgate Latin.

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 abundant resources to resist an enemy, or to sustain a siege. Babylon was ten miles square; and it was supposed to contain provisions enough to maintain a siege for many years. There were, moreover, no symptoms of internal decay; there were no apparent external reasons why her prosperity should not continue; there were no causes at work, which human sagacity could detect, which would prevent her continuing to any indefinite period of time.

Thou didst not lay these things to thy heart - Thou didst not consider what, under the government of a holy and just God, must be the effect of treating a captured and oppressed people in this manner. Babylon supposed, that notwithstanding her pride, and haughtiness, and oppressions, she would be able to stand forever.

Neither didst remember the latter end of it - The end of pride, arrogance, and cruelty. The sense is, that Babylon might have learned from the fate of other kingdoms that had been, like her, arrogant and cruel, what must inevitably be her own destiny. But she refused to learn a lesson from their doom. So common is it for nations to disregard the lessons which history teaches; so common for individuals to neglect the warnings furnished by the destruction of the wicked.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 47:7. So that thou didst not - "Because thou didst not"] For עד ad, read על al; so two MSS., and one edition. And for, אחריתה acharithah, "the latter end of it," read אחריתך acharithecha, "thy latter end;" so thirteen MSS., and two editions, and the Vulgate. Both the sixth and seventh verses are wanting in one of my oldest MSS.