Isaiah 47:8

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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 panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

I shall not

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

General references

And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.