Geneva Bible Notes: Isaiah 47

Isaiah 47:1 ^! The destruction of Babylon and the causes wherefore.

Isaiah 47:1 ^a Which hath liued in wealth, & wantonnes, and hast not uet bene ouercome by any enemie.

Isaiah 47:1 ^b Thy gouernement shalbe taken from thee.

Isaiah 47:2 ^c Thou shalt be broght to moste vile seuitude; for to turne the mille was the office of slaues.

Isaiah 47:2 ^d The things wherein she setteth her greatest pride shal be made vile, euen from the head to the fote.

Isaiah 47:3 ^e I wil vse no humanitie nor pitie toward thee.

Isaiah 47:4 ^f The Israelites shal confesse, that the Lord doeth this for his Church sake.

Isaiah 47:5 ^g For very shame & hide thy self.

Isaiah 47:6 ^h Thei abused Gods judgements thinking that he punished the Israelites, because he wolde vtterly cast them of and therefore in stead of pitying their pisterie, thou didist increase it.

Isaiah 47:9 ^h So that thy punishment shalbe so great, as is possible to be imagined.

Isaiah 47:10 ^k Thou didest thinke that thine owne wisdome & policie wolde haue saued thee.

Isaiah 47:12 ^l He derideth their vaine confidence, that put their trust in any thing, but in God, condemning also suche vaine sciences, which serue to no vse, but to delude the people and to bring them from depending onely in God.

Isaiah 47:14 ^m They shal vtterly perish and no parte of them remaine.

Isaiah 47:15 ⁿ They shal flee euery one to that place, wihch he thoght by his speculacions to be moste sure: but that shal deceiue them .