Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"And thou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof." — Isaiah 47:7 (ASV)
You said ... —The boastful confidence of Babylon in her own perpetuity blinded her, as it had long blinded other nations, to “these things,” namely, the Divine law that pride and cruelty bring their own Nemesis.