Come down – Descend from the throne, or from the seat of magnificence and power. The design of this verse has already been stated in the ana…

Come down ... — The virgin daughter of Babylon, i.e., Babylon itself, personified as until now unconquered, is c…

Come down, and sit in the dust. Isaiah now explains more fully what he had briefly noticed concerning the counsel of God, and the executio…

Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, &c.] The kingdom of Babylon is meant, as the Targum paraphrases it; o…

Babylon is represented under the emblem of a female in deep distress. She was to be degraded and endure sufferings; and is represented sitting on t…

1. Come down, and sit in the dust. Here the prophet foretells the degradation of the kingdom of Babylon. In this regard, he does th…