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Isaiah Chapter 47

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Isaiah

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In Isaiah 47 the prophet declares that God will deliver Israel from the hand of the enemy and will give them the land of the north as a reward. He also promises that the nations will be humbled and that the temple will be a place of honor. The chapter emphasizes God’s sovereignty and the ultimate triumph of His people.

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(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.
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Isaiah 3:26Isaiah 26:5Isaiah 52:2Job 2:8Job 2:13Psalms 18:27Jeremiah 13:18Jeremiah 48:18Lamentations 2:10Lamentations 2:21Ezekiel 26:16Ezekiel 28:17

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Luke 12:53Lamentations 2:10Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Deuteronomy 28:56Isaiah 52:2

(2) Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
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Exodus 11:5Judges 16:21Job 31:10Jeremiah 27:7Lamentations 5:13Matthew 24:41Luke 17:35Isaiah 3:17Isaiah 20:4Jeremiah 13:22Jeremiah 13:26Ezekiel 16:37

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Leviticus 18:7Leviticus 18:15Leviticus 18:17Ezekiel 29:4

(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.
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Isaiah 34:1Isaiah 34:2Isaiah 34:3Isaiah 34:4Isaiah 34:5Isaiah 34:6Isaiah 34:7Isaiah 34:8Isaiah 59:17Isaiah 59:18Isaiah 63:4Isaiah 63:5

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Leviticus 20:17Leviticus 18:7Leviticus 18:10

(4) As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
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Isaiah 41:14Isaiah 43:3Isaiah 43:14Isaiah 44:6Isaiah 49:26Isaiah 54:5Jeremiah 31:11Jeremiah 50:33Jeremiah 50:34

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Zechariah 1:3

(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.
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Isaiah 13:20Isaiah 14:23I Samuel 2:9Psalms 31:17Psalms 46:10Jeremiah 25:10Lamentations 1:1Habakkuk 2:20Zechariah 2:13Matthew 22:12Matthew 22:13Jude 1:13

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Isaiah 47:1Luke 12:53Job 10:22Matthew 6:23I John 2:11Genesis 36:2

(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.
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Isaiah 10:6Isaiah 42:24Isaiah 42:25II Samuel 24:14II Chronicles 28:9Psalms 69:26Zechariah 1:15Isaiah 43:28Lamentations 2:2Ezekiel 24:21Ezekiel 28:16Isaiah 13:16

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Exodus 33:19Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Judges 1:24I Samuel 15:19

(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.
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Isaiah 47:5Ezekiel 28:2Ezekiel 28:12Ezekiel 28:13Ezekiel 28:14Ezekiel 29:3Daniel 4:29Daniel 5:18Daniel 5:19Daniel 5:20Daniel 5:21Daniel 5:22

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I Samuel 15:19Isaiah 57:9Genesis 31:27Deuteronomy 33:8II Samuel 12:21II Chronicles 2:3

(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:
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Isaiah 21:4Isaiah 21:5Isaiah 22:12Isaiah 22:13Isaiah 32:9Judges 18:7Judges 18:27Jeremiah 50:11Daniel 5:1Daniel 5:2Daniel 5:3Daniel 5:4

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Leviticus 23:38Isaiah 45:21

(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.
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Isaiah 51:18Isaiah 51:19Ruth 1:5Ruth 1:20Luke 7:12Luke 7:13Isaiah 13:19Psalms 73:19I Thessalonians 5:3Revelation 18:8Revelation 18:9Revelation 18:10

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Isaiah 47:12

(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.
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Isaiah 28:15Isaiah 59:4Psalms 52:7Psalms 62:9Isaiah 29:15Job 22:13Job 22:14Psalms 10:11Psalms 64:5Psalms 94:7Psalms 94:8Psalms 94:9

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Jeremiah 44:9Leviticus 23:38Ecclesiastes 1:16Ecclesiastes 7:12Isaiah 45:21I Kings 4:30

(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.
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Isaiah 37:36Exodus 12:29Exodus 12:30Nehemiah 4:11Revelation 3:3Psalms 50:22Jeremiah 51:39Jeremiah 51:40Jeremiah 51:41Jeremiah 51:42Daniel 5:25Daniel 5:26

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Proverbs 24:16

(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.
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Isaiah 47:9Isaiah 47:10Isaiah 8:19Isaiah 19:3Isaiah 44:25Exodus 7:11Exodus 8:7Exodus 8:18Exodus 8:19Exodus 9:11Jeremiah 2:28Daniel 5:7

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Deuteronomy 30:20Ecclesiastes 2:19Revelation 3:18I Samuel 17:33Isaiah 47:9

(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.
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Isaiah 57:10Ezekiel 24:12Habakkuk 2:13Isaiah 44:25Daniel 2:2Daniel 2:3Daniel 2:4Daniel 2:5Daniel 2:6Daniel 2:7Daniel 2:8Daniel 2:9

(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.
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Isaiah 40:24Isaiah 41:2Ezekiel 15:7Psalms 83:13Psalms 83:14Psalms 83:15Joel 2:5Obadiah 1:18Nahum 1:10Malachi 4:1Matthew 10:28Matthew 16:26

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Malachi 4:1Ecclesiastes 8:8

(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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Isaiah 56:11Ezekiel 27:12Ezekiel 27:13Ezekiel 27:14Ezekiel 27:15Ezekiel 27:16Ezekiel 27:17Ezekiel 27:18Ezekiel 27:19Ezekiel 27:20Ezekiel 27:21Ezekiel 27:22

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