Isaiah 47

Isaiah 47

In this chapter we see God's judgment that came upon Babylon and will come upon Babylon in the days before us. The language used is filled with sarcasm and mocking toward Babylon. It is graphic and leaves nothing to the imagination.As God's judgment unfolds, His people break out into a shout of praise. What other response can there be. Their captors have been cruel and oppressive. What other response can there be when God frees His people and brings final judgment on all evildoers?This is a tough message. God's judgment is serious beyond what we can imagine. It is final. Once God's judgment comes upon a person, no one can save them!What application can we make? Much of what we read aptly applies to America, although we are certainly not Babylon. However, we have embraced much of the character of Babylon. God's principles of judgment have not changed therefore America is on the precipice of God's judgment. We will go to bed one night in an America we have always known and wake up in an America that we have never known. It will happen with a sobering abruptness.What are we to do!? We must be about our Father's business. We must keep our hand to the plough and never look back. Jesus is coming soon. Run this race with everything you have. Run this race to win. Always looking up as our salvation draws near.
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Chapter 47
1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
8 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:
9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
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