Isaiah 47:3 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 47:3

Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

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ASV

Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Chapter 47, verses 1 and following) Descend, sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon: sit on the ground, there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no longer be called tender and delicate. Take a millstone and grind flour: uncover your nakedness, uncover your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the rivers. Your shame will be exposed, and your disgrace will be seen; I will take vengeance, and no one will be able to resist me. 70: Descend, sit on the ground, virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 4:3.47:1-3 (444)

"Bare your legs and cross the rivers. Your shame will be uncovered and your disgrace shown." For she was once led into captivity. She was taken from her own land into that of the victors. Being between the two rivers, they had to cross on their feet and uncover themselves. What decorum the women had was lost, and out of necessity even the private parts of their bodies were exposed to many.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Thy nakedness - This denotes the abject condition to which the city would be reduced. All its pride would be taken away; and it would be brought to such a state as to fill its inhabitants with the deepest mortification and shame. Vitringa supposes that it means, that all the imbecility and weakness; the vileness; the real poverty; the cruelty and injustice of Babylon, would be exposed. But it more probably means, that it would be reduced to the deepest ignominy.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
תִּגָּל֙	ti.Gal	let it be uncovered	H1540 →
עֶרְוָתֵ֔ךְ	'er.va.Tekh	nakedness your	H6172 →
גַּ֥ם	gam	also	H1571 →
תֵּרָאֶ֖ה	te.ra.'Eh	let it be visible	H7200 →
חֶרְפָּתֵ֑ךְ	cher.pa.Tekh	reproach your	H2781 →
נָקָ֣ם	na.Kam	vengeance	H5359 →
אֶקָּ֔ח	'e.Kach	I will take	H3947 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
אֶפְגַּ֖ע	'ef.Ga'	I will meet	H6293 →
אָדָֽם׃ ס	'a.Dam	anyone	H120 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Nahum 3:5
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
leads to
- Jeremiah 13:26
  So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
- Jeremiah 13:22
  And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
- Ezekiel 23:29
  They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity
- Isaiah 47:2–3
  Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
Through
Revelation 16:19
The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His…
leads to
- Revelation 18:5
  For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
- Revelation 17:18
  And the woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”
- Revelation 18:10
  In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
- Revelation 18:21
  Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never…

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Where the connections lead

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About Isaiah