Isaiah 47

Isaiah 47:1

8. Comfort from the Fall of Babylon (Chap. 47)47:1-4 The city of Babylon is pictured as a beautiful young virgin queen who is forced to step down from her throne and become a servant, doing menial work and wading through the rivers into captivity. She will be stripped bare and exposed to public view. God will take vengeance and spare no man, because He is acting as the Redeemer, . . . the Holy One of Israel. 47:5-15 Babylon will be punished for four sins.
9. Although God did appoint her to carry His people into exile, He did not order her to be cruel and merciless. She overplayed her part. Now she says, “I shall be a lady forever,” but God says, “You shall be no longer be called the Lady of Kingdoms.“2. She was proud and arrogant, supposing that nothing could ever destroy her prosperity. She will become widowed and childless in one day, and none of her sorceries will be able to prevent the calamity.
10. She considered herself immune from detection and punishment. But her smugness and proud self-sufficiency will be rewarded with disaster.
11. She trusted in sorcerers and astrologers. Jennings writes, “Jehovah counsels her to call all these powers to her aid, for she will need them sorely.” God’s punishment will be a blazing inferno, not a comfortable fire in the fireplace. Those who trafficked with Babylon will go their own way, unable to save her.