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 heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;

Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.

Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

"Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture, and neigh like stallions,

King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.

This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is no one else." What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living."

I shall not

His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.

And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

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

As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.'

General references

"I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.

And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.