Isaiah 47:3

Isaiah 47:3 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your nakedness shall be uncovered, Yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, And I will not arbitrate with a man.”

Context of Isaiah 47:3

1“Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered. 2Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams! Let your private parts be exposed! Your genitals will be on display! I will get revenge; I will not have pity on anyone,” 4says our protector – the Lord who commands armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5“Sit silently! Go to a hiding place, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called ‘Queen of kingdoms.’

Isaiah 47:3 word by word

תִּגָּל֙ עֶרְוָתֵ֔ךְ גַּ֥ם תֵּרָאֶ֖ה חֶרְפָּתֵ֑ךְ נָקָ֣ם אֶקָּ֔ח וְלֹ֥א אֶפְגַּ֖ע אָדָֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thy nakednessעֶרְוָה‛ervâh · nakednessH6172
• shall be uncoveredגָּלָהgâlâh · to reveal: uncoverH1540
• yea, thy shameחֶרְפָּהcherpâh · reproachH2781
• shall be seenרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• I will takeלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• vengeanceנָקָםnâqâm · vengeanceH5359
• and I will not meetפָּגַעpâga‛ · to fall onH6293
• a manאָדָם'âdâm · manH120

Cross-references for Isaiah 47:3

• Isaiah 34:1Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.
• Isaiah 59:17He wears his desire for justice like body armor, and his desire to deliver is like a helmet on his head. He puts on the garments of vengeance and wears zeal like a robe.
• Isaiah 63:4For I looked forward to the day of vengeance, and then payback time arrived.
• Deuteronomy 32:35I will get revenge and pay them back at the time their foot slips; for the day of their disaster is near, and the impending judgment is rushing upon them!”
• Psalms 94:1O Lord, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!
• Psalms 137:8O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!
• Jeremiah 13:22You will probably ask yourself, ‘Why have these things happened to me? Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?’ It is because you have sinned so much.
• Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her soldiers! Let them be slaughtered! They are doomed, for their day of reckoning has come, the time for them to be punished.”
• Jeremiah 51:4Let them fall slain in the land of Babylonia, mortally wounded in the streets of her cities.
• Romans 12:19Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
• Hebrews 10:30For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
• Nahum 3:5I am against you,” declares the Lord who commands armies. “I will strip off your clothes! I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms;
• Revelation 6:9Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.
• Revelation 16:19The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God’s furious wrath.
• Revelation 18:5because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

Commentaries on Isaiah 47:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3I will not meet thee as a man "Neither will I suffer man to intercede with me" - The verb should be pointed, or written, אפגיע aphgia, in Hiphil.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Thy 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3God will bring justice to the world by punishing those who oppose him and oppress his people (see Isaiah 34:8). This will remove wickedness.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. not meet ... as a man--rather, "I will not meet a man," that is, suffer man to intercede with me--give man an audience [Horsley]. Or, "I will not make peace with any man," before all are destroyed. Literally, "strike a league with"; a phrase arising from the custom of striking hands together in making a compact [Maurer], (see on Pr 17:18; Pr 22:26; 11:15, Margin). Or else from striking the victims sacrificed in making treaties.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 47

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings