Isaiah 39:6
Context39:6 ‘Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors 1 have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.
Isaiah 47:1
ContextBabylon Will Fall
47:1 “Fall down! Sit in the dirt,
O virgin 2 daughter Babylon!
Sit on the ground, not on a throne,
O daughter of the Babylonians!
Indeed, 3 you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.


[39:6] 1 tn Heb “fathers” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV).
[47:1] 2 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).