Isaiah 47:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

Given

I shall not

Revelation 18:7

General references

Jeremiah 51:24

Zechariah 1:15

James 4:16

Bible References

Given

My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

Rise up, you women who are at ease,
And hear my voice;

Give ear to my word,

You complacent daughters.

Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were in it living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no ruler humiliating them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

“Because you are glad, because you are jubilant,
O you who pillage My heritage,
Because you skip about like a threshing heifer
And neigh like stallions,

Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.

This is the exultant city
Which dwells securely,
Who says in her heart,
“I am, and there is no one besides me.”
How she has become a desolation,
A resting place for beasts!

Everyone who passes by her will hiss

And wave his hand in contempt.

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her

sensuality.”

I shall not

His ways

prosper at all times;

Your judgments are on high, out of his sight;
As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

Like tangled thorns,
And like those who are drunken with their drink,
They are consumed
As stubble completely withered.

Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’

General references

“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.

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

furthered the disaster.”

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.