Isaiah 47:5
“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- silent
- Isaiah 13:20; Isaiah 14:23; 1 Samuel 2:9; Psalm 31:17; Psalm 46:10; Jeremiah 25:10; Lamentations 1:1; Habakkuk 2:20; Zechariah 2:13; Matthew 22:12, 13; Jude 1:13; Revelation 18:21–24
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- After Babylon was taken by Cyrus, instead of being "the lady of kingdoms," the metropolis of a great empire, and mistress of all the East, it became subject to the Persians; and the imperial seat being removed to Susa, instead of having a king, it had only a deputy residing there, who governed it as a province of the Persian empire.
- Isaiah 47:7; Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 14:4; Daniel 2:37, 38; Revelation 17:3–5, 18; Revelation 18:7, 16–19