1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Isaiah 47:1 | Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin, daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt no more be called delicate and tender. | Virgin; delicate. (Menochius) --- Cyrus overthrew this empire, (Calmet) which now felt its share of misery. (Worthington) |
| Isaiah 47:2 | Take a mill-stone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers. | Shame. Hebrew tsammathec, Canticle of Canticles 4:1, 4. Protestants, "thy locks, make bare the legs, uncover the thigh, pass," etc. (Haydock) --- Thou shalt be reduced to a state of the most abject slavery, Exodus 11:5., and Supra[Isaias] 3:17., and 20:4. The Barbarians sold their slaves naked. |
| Isaiah 47:3 | *Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me. Nahum 3:5. | |
| Isaiah 47:4 | Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the holy One of Israel. | |
| Isaiah 47:5 | Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms. | |
| Isaiah 47:6 | I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and have given them into thy hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceedingly heavy. | Polluted; deemed or declared unclean. But thou hast sought to gratify thy vindictive temper, in punishing my people. (Calmet) --- The sins of both called down vengeance. (Worthington) |
| Isaiah 47:7 | And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter end. | Lady. Pride goes before ruin, Proverbs 16:18. |
| Isaiah 47:8 | And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and dwellest confidently, that sayest in thy heart: *I am, and there is none else besides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know barrenness. Apocalypse 18:7. | |
| Isaiah 47:9 | *These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters. Isaias 51:19. | Two. The empire and the people shall be removed at once. --- Enchanters; princes or magicians, who gave them evil counsel, ver. 12. |
| Isaiah 47:10 | And thou hast trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and thy knowledge, this hath deceived thee. And thou hast said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no other. | |
| Isaiah 47:11 | Evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know the rising thereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon thee, which thou canst not keep off: misery shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. | Know. All this shews the vanity of magic, which cannot announce future events to do any good. (Calmet) |
| Isaiah 47:12 | Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger. | |
| Isaiah 47:13 | Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars, and counted the months, that from them they might tell the things that shall come to thee. | Months, to tell which would prove lucky, Esther 3:7. |
| Isaiah 47:14 | Behold, they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat. | Thereat, to warm themselves, (Haydock) or to adore. (Calmet) --- In Cappadocia are to be seen "Pyratheia,...in which the magi keep a perpetual fire, and sing hymns about the space of an hour." (Strabo xv.) --- These were a sort of open temples. (Calmet) |
| Isaiah 47:15 | Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast laboured: thy merchants, from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way, there is none that can save thee. | Merchants. The city was well situated for trade, Isaias 13:20. (Diodorus ii.) |