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“Come down, virgin daughter of Babylon, and sit in the dust. For your days of sitting on a throne have ended. O daughter of Babylonia, never again will you be the lovely princess, tender and delicate. 2Take heavy millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view. You will be naked and burdened with shame. I will take vengeance against you without pity.” 4Our Redeemer, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, is the Holy One of Israel. 5“O beautiful Babylon, sit now in darkness and silence. Never again will you be known as the 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 here and listen, O nations of the earth. Let the world and everything in it hear my words.
• Isaiah 59:17He put on righteousness as his body armor and placed the helmet of salvation on his head. He clothed himself with a robe of vengeance and wrapped himself in a cloak of divine passion.
• Isaiah 63:4For the time has come for me to avenge my people, to ransom them from their oppressors.
• Deuteronomy 32:35I will take revenge; I will pay them back. In due time their feet will slip. Their day of disaster will arrive, and their destiny will overtake them.’
• Psalms 94:1O Lord, the God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, let your glorious justice shine forth!
• Psalms 137:8O Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy is the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.
• Jeremiah 13:22You may ask yourself, “Why is all this happening to me?” It is because of your many sins! That is why you have been stripped and raped by invading armies.
• Jeremiah 50:27Destroy even her young bulls— it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.
• Jeremiah 51:4They will fall dead in the land of the Babylonians, slashed to death in her streets.
• Romans 12:19Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say, “I will take revenge; I will pay them back,” says the Lord.
• Hebrews 10:30For we know the one who said, “I will take revenge. I will pay them back.” He also said, “The Lord will judge his own people.”
• Nahum 3:5“I am your enemy!” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “And now I will lift your skirts and show all the earth your nakedness and shame.
• Revelation 6:9When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of all who had been martyred for the word of God and for being faithful in their testimony.
• Revelation 16:19The great city of Babylon split into three sections, and the cities of many nations fell into heaps of rubble. So God remembered all of Babylon’s sins, and he made her drink the cup that was filled with the wine of his fierce wrath.
• Revelation 18:5For her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God remembers her evil deeds.

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