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All of them go on in their error; there is not one that can save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/47.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />And all your friends, those with whom you’ve done business since childhood, will go their own ways, turning a deaf ear to your cries.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/47.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have done business with you from your youth; they wander about, each in his own direction; there is no one to save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/47.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/47.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, <i>even</i> thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/47.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Thus shall they be to you With whom you have labored, Your merchants from your youth; They shall wander each one to his quarter. No one shall save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/47.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“So have those become to you with whom you have labored, Those who have done business with you from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way; There is no one to save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/47.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220So have those become to you with whom you have labored, Who have trafficked with you from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way; There is none to save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/47.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“So have those become to you with whom you have labored, Who have trafficked with you from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way. There is none to save you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/47.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Thus they have become for you, those among whom you have labored, Who have traded with you from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way; There is none to save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/47.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“This is how they have become to you, those [astrologers and sorcerers] with whom you have labored, Those who have done business with you from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way. There is no one to save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/47.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />This is what they are to you — those who have wearied you and have traded with you from your youth — each wanders on his own way; no one can save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/47.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />This is what they are to you— those who have wearied you and have traded with you from your youth— each wanders on his own way; no one can save you.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/47.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thus shall the things be unto thee wherein thou hast labored: they that have trafficked with thee from thy youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to save thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/47.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />These are the fortunetellers you have done business with all of your life. But they don't know where they are going, and they can't save you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/47.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thus shall the things be unto thee wherein thou hast laboured: they that have trafficked with thee from thy youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to save thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/47.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />This is how it will be for those who have worked with you, for those who have been with you ever since you were young. They will go their own ways, and there will be no one to save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/47.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />That is all the good they will do you--those astrologers you've consulted all your life. They all will leave you and go their own way, and none will be left to save you." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/47.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />So will they be to you—those with whom you toiled and did business since your childhood— they wander about, each in his own direction; there is not one who can save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/47.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />They will disappoint you, those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. Each strays off in his own direction, leaving no one to rescue you." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/47.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/47.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thus shall they be to thee with whom thou hast labored, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/47.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/47.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The things that you labored in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/47.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />So they have been to you with whom you have labored, "" Your merchants from your youth, "" They have each wandered to his passage, "" None is saving you!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/47.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> So have they been to thee with whom thou hast laboured, Thy merchants from thy youth, Each to his passage they have wandered, Thy saviour is not!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/47.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Thus shall they be to thee for whom thou didst labor, thy merchants, from thy youth; they wandered a man to his other side; none saving thee.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/47.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou best laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way, there is none that can save thee. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/47.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />So have all these things, in which you have labored, become to you. Your merchants from your youth, each one has erred in his own way. There is no one who can save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/47.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Thus do your wizards serve you with whom you have toiled from your youth; They wander their separate ways, with none to save you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/47.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have trafficked with you from your youth; they all wander about in their own paths; there is no one to save you.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/47.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Thus have become to you your merchants with whom you have labored from your youth: they have wandered every one to his quarter, and there is none to save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/47.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />In this way they have been to you your Merchants with whom you labored from your youth, and they have gone astray, each man, beside himself, and there is none who saves you <div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/47.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Thus shall they be unto thee With whom thou hast laboured; They that have trafficked with thee from thy youth Shall wander every one to his quarter; There shall be none to save thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/47.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />these shall be thy help. Thou hast wearied thyself with traffic from thy youth: every man has wandered to his own home, but thou shalt have no deliverance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/47-15.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=10632" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/47.htm">The Fall of Babylon Predicted</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">14</span>Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside. <span class="reftext">15</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: kên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">This is what</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hā·yū- (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">they are</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- ">to you—</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">those with whom</a> <a href="/hebrew/3021.htm" title="3021: yā·ḡā·‘at (V-Qal-Perf-2fs) -- To toil, grow or be weary. A primitive root; properly, to gasp; hence, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil.">you have labored</a> <a href="/hebrew/5503.htm" title="5503: sō·ḥă·ra·yiḵ (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mpc:: 2fs) -- To go around or about, travel about. A primitive root; to travel round; intensively, to palpitate.">and traded</a> <a href="/hebrew/5271.htm" title="5271: min·nə·‘ū·ra·yiḵ (Prep-m:: N-mpc:: 2fs) -- Or naur; and nturah; properly, passive participle from na'ar as denominative; youth, the state or the persons.">from youth—</a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’îš (N-ms) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term.">each one</a> <a href="/hebrew/8582.htm" title="8582: tā·‘ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To err. A primitive root; to vacillate, i.e. Reel or stray; also causative of both.">strays</a> <a href="/hebrew/5676.htm" title="5676: lə·‘eḇ·rōw (Prep-l:: N-msc:: 3ms) -- Region across or beyond, side. From abar; properly, a region across; but used only adverbially on the opposite side.">in his own direction;</a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: ’ên (Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.">not one of them</a> <a href="/hebrew/3467.htm" title="3467: mō·wō·šî·‘êḵ (V-Hifil-Prtcpl-msc:: 2fs) -- To deliver. A primitive root; properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. to be safe; causatively, to free or succor.">can save you.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-10.htm">Revelation 18:10-19</a></span><br />In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.” / And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo— / cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/51-8.htm">Jeremiah 51:8-9</a></span><br />Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed. / “We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nahum/3-4.htm">Nahum 3:4-7</a></span><br />because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft. / “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms. / I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/27-29.htm">Ezekiel 27:29-32</a></span><br />All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore. / They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes. / They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-13.htm">Jeremiah 50:13</a></span><br />Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-21.htm">Revelation 18:21-23</a></span><br />Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again. / And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again. / The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19-22</a></span><br />And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. / She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. / But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/51-64.htm">Jeremiah 51:64</a></span><br />Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-16.htm">Revelation 17:16-18</a></span><br />And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. / For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by uniting to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. / And the woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/14-22.htm">Isaiah 14:22-23</a></span><br />“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD. / “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-39.htm">Jeremiah 50:39-40</a></span><br />So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation. / As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/26-16.htm">Ezekiel 26:16-18</a></span><br />All the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled over you. / Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples! / Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.”’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/21-9.htm">Isaiah 21:9</a></span><br />Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/14-8.htm">Revelation 14:8</a></span><br />Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/51-37.htm">Jeremiah 51:37</a></span><br />Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Thus shall they be to you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save you.</p><p class="hdg">thy merchants</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/56-11.htm">Isaiah 56:11</a></b></br> Yea, <i>they are</i> greedy dogs <i>which</i> can never have enough, and they <i>are</i> shepherds <i>that</i> cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/27-12.htm">Ezekiel 27:12-25</a></b></br> Tarshish <i>was</i> thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all <i>kind of</i> riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/revelation/18-11.htm">Revelation 18:11-19</a></b></br> And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: … </p><p class="hdg">they shall.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/51-6.htm">Jeremiah 51:6-9</a></b></br> Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this <i>is</i> the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/revelation/18-15.htm">Revelation 18:15-17</a></b></br> The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ecclesiastes/11-10.htm">Childhood</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-12.htm">Direction</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-12.htm">Earliest</a> <a href="/isaiah/46-11.htm">Flight</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-17.htm">Goes</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-9.htm">Great</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-12.htm">Labored</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-8.htm">Merchants</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-32.htm">Passage</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-12.htm">Profit</a> <a href="/esther/4-14.htm">Quarter</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-14.htm">Save</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-15.htm">Saviour</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-23.htm">Small</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-13.htm">Straight</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-21.htm">Trafficked</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-15.htm">Wander</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-4.htm">Wandered</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-10.htm">Way</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-12.htm">Youth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/mark/9-21.htm">Childhood</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-11.htm">Direction</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-8.htm">Earliest</a> <a href="/isaiah/52-12.htm">Flight</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-11.htm">Goes</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-2.htm">Great</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-4.htm">Labored</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Merchants</a> <a href="/ezekiel/42-4.htm">Passage</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-17.htm">Profit</a> <a href="/isaiah/56-11.htm">Quarter</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-25.htm">Save</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-26.htm">Saviour</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-6.htm">Small</a> <a href="/isaiah/57-2.htm">Straight</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-12.htm">Trafficked</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-17.htm">Wander</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-6.htm">Wandered</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-15.htm">Way</a> <a href="/isaiah/54-4.htm">Youth</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 47</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">God's judgment upon Babylon and Chaldea</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/47-6.htm">For their unmercifulness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/47-7.htm">Pride</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/47-10.htm">And over-boldness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/47-11.htm">Shall be irresistible</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the broader context of <a href="/isaiah/47.htm">Isaiah 47</a>, God is pronouncing judgment on Babylon, a nation known for its reliance on magic and divination. The phrase indicates a shift from reliance on these practices to the realization of their futility.<p><b>those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—</b><br>Babylon was a major center of commerce and trade in the ancient world, known for its wealth and influence. The phrase suggests a long-standing relationship, emphasizing that these advisors and merchants have been integral to Babylon's identity and prosperity. Historically, Babylon's economy was heavily reliant on trade, and its culture was deeply intertwined with the practices of divination and astrology.<p><b>each one strays in his own direction;</b><br>This indicates the abandonment and disunity among those who were once allies or trusted advisors. In times of crisis, rather than providing support, they scatter. This reflects the broader biblical theme of the unreliability of human alliances compared to the steadfastness of God. It also echoes the scattering of the nations at Babel (<a href="/genesis/11-9.htm">Genesis 11:9</a>), highlighting the futility of human efforts apart from God.<p><b>not one of them can save you.</b><br>The ultimate message is the impotence of Babylon's trusted advisors and allies in the face of divine judgment. This underscores the biblical principle that salvation and deliverance come only from God, not from human wisdom or power. It connects to other scriptures that emphasize God's sovereignty and the futility of trusting in anything other than Him, such as <a href="/psalms/146-3.htm">Psalm 146:3</a>, which warns against putting trust in princes or mortal men who cannot save.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a></b><br>The city and empire addressed in <a href="/bsb/isaiah/47.htm">Isaiah 47</a>, symbolizing pride and self-reliance. Babylon is depicted as a fallen power due to its arrogance and idolatry.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/m/merchants_and_traders.htm">Merchants and Traders</a></b><br>Those who have engaged in commerce with Babylon, representing alliances and dependencies that ultimately fail.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>The prophet who delivers God's message of judgment against Babylon, emphasizing the futility of relying on human strength and alliances.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/g/god's_judgment.htm">God's Judgment</a></b><br>The event of divine retribution against Babylon for its pride and idolatry, illustrating the theme of God's sovereignty over nations.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_exile.htm">The Exile</a></b><br>The broader context of Israel's exile, during which Babylon was a dominant power, serving as a backdrop for the prophecy.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_futility_of_worldly_alliances.htm">The Futility of Worldly Alliances</a></b><br>Trusting in human alliances and economic power, as Babylon did, ultimately leads to disappointment and failure. Our ultimate reliance should be on God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_sovereignty_of_god.htm">The Sovereignty of God</a></b><br>God's judgment on Babylon demonstrates His control over nations and history. We should live with the awareness of God's sovereignty in our lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_pride.htm">The Danger of Pride</a></b><br>Babylon's downfall serves as a warning against pride and self-reliance. Humility before God is essential for spiritual well-being.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_preparedness.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Preparedness</a></b><br>Just as Babylon's allies abandoned her, worldly supports can fail us. We must be spiritually prepared and rooted in faith.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a></b><br>The prophecy invites reflection on our own lives and a call to turn away from idolatry and towards God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_47.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 47</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_god_value_the_lost_and_found.htm">How does God value the lost and found?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_means_'return_to_god_fully'.htm">Where can I find my lost sheep?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_mark_10_21_conflict_with_modern_life.htm">Doesn't Jesus' command in Mark 10:21 to 'sell everything' conflict with modern economic realities and social responsibilities?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/where's_evidence_for_moab's_fall_in_isaiah_15.htm">Where is the extra-biblical evidence supporting the sudden fall of Moab suggested by Isaiah 15?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/47.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(15) <span class= "bld">Thy merchants, from thy youth . . .</span>--The commerce of Babylon is specially prominent in all descriptions. (Comp. Herod. i. 194-196; <a href="/ezekiel/17-4.htm" title="He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.">Ezekiel 17:4</a>.) The time was coming when those who had thronged her markets would desert her and leave her to her desolation.<span class= "bld"><p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/47.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 15.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured</span>. The foreigners who have participated in the toils and labours of Babylon shall share in her punishment. The flame of judgment shall not spare even them. <span class="cmt_word">Even</span> <span class="cmt_word">thy merchants.</span> Babylonian commerce is the subject of an important chapter in Heeren's 'Asiatic Nations' (vol. 2, pp. 190-260), and is discussed also in the present writer's 'Egypt and Babylon' (ch. 8, pp. 127-144). It was carried on both by land and sea, and was very extensive, including both a large import and a large export trade. Her merchants were, in part natives, in part foreigners. It is the latter who are here specially intended. Seeing the gradual closing in upon Babylon of the Persian armies, and anticipating the worst, they fly in haste from the doomed city, each one making for his own country, and having no thought of interposing to save the people which have so long encouraged and protected them. Probably the greater number of these foreign merchants were either Phoenicians or Arabians. They shall wander every one to his quarter. Not his own quarter of the town, but his own quarter of the earth; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> his own country (comp. <a href="/isaiah/13-14.htm">Isaiah 13:14</a>, "They shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land."). <p> <p> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/47-15.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">This is what</span><br /><span class="heb">כֵּ֥ן</span> <span class="translit">(kên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> </span><span class="str2">So -- thus</span><br /><br /><span class="word">they are</span><br /><span class="heb">הָיוּ־</span> <span class="translit">(hā·yū-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to you—</span><br /><span class="heb">לָ֖ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(lāḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">those with whom</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲשֶׁ֣ר</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you have labored</span><br /><span class="heb">יָגָ֑עַתְּ</span> <span class="translit">(yā·ḡā·‘at)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3021.htm">Strong's 3021: </a> </span><span class="str2">To gasp, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and traded</span><br /><span class="heb">סֹחֲרַ֣יִךְ</span> <span class="translit">(sō·ḥă·ra·yiḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5503.htm">Strong's 5503: </a> </span><span class="str2">To go around or about, travel about</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from youth—</span><br /><span class="heb">מִנְּעוּרַ֗יִךְ</span> <span class="translit">(min·nə·‘ū·ra·yiḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5271.htm">Strong's 5271: </a> </span><span class="str2">Youth, the state, the persons</span><br /><br /><span class="word">each one</span><br /><span class="heb">אִ֤ישׁ</span> <span class="translit">(’îš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> </span><span class="str2">A man as an individual, a male person</span><br /><br /><span class="word">strays</span><br /><span class="heb">תָּע֔וּ</span> <span class="translit">(tā·‘ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8582.htm">Strong's 8582: </a> </span><span class="str2">To vacillate, reel, stray</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in his own direction;</span><br /><span class="heb">לְעֶבְרוֹ֙</span> <span class="translit">(lə·‘eḇ·rōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5676.htm">Strong's 5676: </a> </span><span class="str2">A region across, on the opposite side</span><br /><br /><span class="word">not one of them</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵ֖ין</span> <span class="translit">(’ên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_369.htm">Strong's 369: </a> </span><span class="str2">A non-entity, a negative particle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">can save you.</span><br /><span class="heb">מוֹשִׁיעֵֽךְ׃</span> <span class="translit">(mō·wō·šî·‘êḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3467.htm">Strong's 3467: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/47-15.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 47:15 Thus shall the things be to you (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/47-14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 47:14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 47:14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/48-1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 48:1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 48:1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>