Isaiah 47:6

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Summary

I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Wroth

I have polluted

Thou didst

James 2:13

Upon

Deuteronomy 28:50

General references

Bible References

Wroth

I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
And in whose ways they were not willing to walk,
And whose law they did not obey?

Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the Lord

for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army which came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, He has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has even reached heaven.

For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.

But I am very angry with the nations who are at ease; for while I was only a little angry, they

furthered the disaster.”

I have polluted

“So I will pollute the princes of the sanctuary,
And I will consign Jacob to the ban and Israel to revilement.

The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared
All the habitations of Jacob.
In His wrath He has thrown down
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has brought them down to the ground;
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

“By the abundance of your trade

You were internally filled with violence,

And you sinned;
Therefore I have cast you as profane
From the mountain of God.
And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub,
From the midst of the stones of fire.

Thou didst

Their little ones also will be dashed to pieces
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives ravished.

Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’

“Because of violence to your brother Jacob,

You will be covered with shame,

And you will be cut off forever.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and

by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.

For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

Upon

a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

General references

Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
And in whose ways they were not willing to walk,
And whose law they did not obey?

‘Therefore all who devour you will be devoured;
And all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity;
And those who plunder you will be for plunder,
And all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

“But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes,” declares the Lord.

Princes were hung by their hands;

Elders were not respected.