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Isaiah 47:11 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 11. 11Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
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Role in This Section
The oracle concerning Zion and the nations carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “Therefore shall evil come upon thee” at Isaiah 47:11 as part of “Babylon's False Security and Specialists Cannot Save.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 47:8–15
Read Isaiah 47:11 with 47:8–15. By itself, “Therefore shall evil come upon thee” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, historical horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Claims of permanent rule and invulnerability meet sudden bereavement, exposed wrongdoing, ineffective enchantments, failed astrologers, and merchants unable to rescue.
Why It Needs Context
Isaiah 47:11 performs a local role inside “Babylon's False Security and Specialists Cannot Save.” The oracle concerning Zion and the nations carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “Therefore shall evil come upon thee” at Isaiah 47:11 as part of “Babylon's False Security and Specialists Cannot Save.” The selected verse alone does not carry the full claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Isaiah 47:8–15 — Babylon's False Security and Specialists Cannot SaveSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 47:8–15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 47:8–15 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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