Isaiah 47:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 47

⁷And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

Isaiah 47:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Isaiah 47:5
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Daniel 5:18-23
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: …
Ezekiel 28:12-14
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. …

Topics

Ambition Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Arrogance Care Carnal Mindedness Conceit Confidence Covetousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. so that--Through thy vain expectation of being a queen for ever, thou didst advance to such a pitch of insolence as not to believe “these things” (namely, as to thy overthrow, Is 47:1-5) possible. end of it--namely, of thy insolence, implied in her words, “I shall be a lady for ever.”