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 is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.

Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.

Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses;

Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.

This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways.

I shall not

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.

As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.

General references

And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.

And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.