Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 47:8
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Isaiah47:8
8. given to pleasures--(See on Is 47:1). In no city were there so many incentives to licentiousness.
I am ... none ... beside me--(Is 47:10). Language of arrogance in man's mouth; fitting for God alone (Is 45:6). See Is 5:8, latter part.
widow ... loss of children--A state, represented as a female, when it has fallen is called a widow, because its king is no more; and childless, because it has no inhabitants; they having been carried off as captives (Is 23:4; 54:1, 4, 5; Re 18:7, 8).
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