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 innermost being reels, horror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Rise up, you women who are at ease. Hear my voice and pay attention to my word, you complacent daughters.

So the five men left and traveled to the town of Laish. They saw how the people there lived in security like the Sidonians. They were a peaceful, quiet people, with no argument with anyone. They had all they needed. They lived far away from the Sidonians and had nothing to do with any other people.

You are happy and excited. You have looted the people who belong to me. You dance around like calves on the grass and neigh like stallions.

King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine with them.

This is the joyous city that dwelled in security. She said in her heart, 'I am! There is no one else!' She has become an object of desolation, a place for wild animals to lie down in. Every one who passes by her will hiss, and wag his hand.

All nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication (immorality). The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are very rich through the abundance of her luxury.

I shall not

He always succeeds at what he does. Your judgments are beyond his understanding. He scoffs at all his opponents.

Entangled like thorns and drunken from drink, they are consumed like dry stubble.

He said: I would pull down my barns and build larger barns. I will store all my grain and goods there.

They ate, they drank and they got married until Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came, and destroyed them all.

To the extent she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to that extent give her much torment and sorrow. She says in her heart: 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I shall see no sorrow.'

General references

In your presence I will pay back Babylon and all the people who live in Babylon for all the evil things that they did in Zion, proclaims Jehovah.

And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease (secure). I was but a little angered and they caused my anger to grow into fury.'

You glory in your conceit. Such glory is evil.