Yesaya 47:1

Babylon Will Fall

47:1 “Fall down! Sit in the dirt,

O virgin ¹  daughter Babylon!

Sit on the ground, not on a throne,

O daughter of the Babylonians!

Indeed, ²  you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.

Yesaya 48:17

48:17 This is what the Lord, your protector, ³  says,

the Holy One of Israel: ⁴ 

“I am the Lord your God,

who teaches you how to succeed,

who leads you in the way you should go.

Yesaya 51:10

51:10 Did you not dry up the sea,

the waters of the great deep?

Did you not make ⁵  a path through the depths of the sea,

so those delivered from bondage ⁶  could cross over?

Yesaya 54:6

54:6 “Indeed, the Lord will call you back

like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, ⁷ 

like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God.

Yesaya 60:5

60:5 Then you will look and smile, ⁸ 

you will be excited and your heart will swell with pride. ⁹ 

For the riches of distant lands ¹⁰  will belong to you

and the wealth of nations will come to you.

[47:1]  ¹ tn בְּתוּלַה (bÿtulah) often refers to a virgin, but the phrase “virgin daughter” is apparently stylized (see also 23:12; 37:22). In the extended metaphor of this chapter, where Babylon is personified as a queen (vv. 5, 7), she is depicted as being both a wife and mother (vv. 8-9).

[47:1]  ² tn Or “For” (NASB, NRSV).

[48:17]  ³ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[48:17]  ⁴ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[51:10]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made…?”

[51:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “the redeemed” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “the ransomed.”

[54:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “like a woman abandoned and grieved in spirit.”

[60:5]  ⁸ tn Or “shine,” or “be radiant” (NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[60:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “and it will tremble and be wide, your heart.”

[60:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the wealth of the sea,” i.e., wealth that is transported from distant lands via the sea.