Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 47:1

1. COme down and sit in the dust : O virgin daughter of Babylon , sit on the ground: there is no throne , O daughter of the Caldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

From thy Throne, as it follows.

Either necessarily, because thou shalt have no higher seat: Or, voluntarily, as mourners do, bewailing thine approaching calamities.

So called either, 1. because she had not y[illegible: 1+ letters]t been humbled and conquered: Or rather, 2. Because she was tender and delicate, as the next clause informeth us.

To wit, for thee. The empire is taken away from thee, and translated to the Persians.

Either be reputed so: Or rather be so: for to be called is frequently put for to be, as hath been divers times noted. Thou shalt be reduced to great hardships and miseries.