IsiTyhilelo 18:23

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

23 Nokukhanya kwesibane akusayi kuba sakhanya kuwe; Nezwi lomyeni nelomtshakazi alisayi kuba saviwa kuwe; Ngokuba abarhwebi bakho bebengamanene omhlaba; Ngokuba zonke iintlanga zalahlekiswa kukukhafula kwakho.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the light: Revelation 22:5, Job 21:17, Proverbs 4:18, Proverbs 4:19, Proverbs 24:20

the voice: Revelation 18:22

thy merchants: Revelation 18:3, Revelation 18:11-19, Isaiah 23:8, Ezekiel 27:24, Ezekiel 27:25, Ezekiel 27:33, Ezekiel 27:34

for: Revelation 18:3, Revelation 18:9, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 13:13-16, Revelation 17:2, Revelation 17:5, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15, 2 Kings 9:22, Isaiah 47:9, Nahum 3:4, Acts 8:11

Reciprocal: Job 3:7 - solitary Job 18:6 - candle Psalms 119:118 - their deceit Proverbs 7:12 - General Isaiah 23:1 - for it is Isaiah 23:4 - I travail Isaiah 44:20 - a deceived Jeremiah 7:34 - to cease Jeremiah 16:9 - I will Jeremiah 25:10 - voice of mirth Jeremiah 27:9 - hearken Jeremiah 33:11 - voice of joy Jeremiah 48:33 - joy Jeremiah 51:7 - the nations Jeremiah 51:55 - destroyed Ezekiel 26:13 - General Hosea 2:11 - cause 2 Thessalonians 2:9 - is 1 Timothy 4:1 - seducing 2 Timothy 3:13 - evil James 3:6 - a world Revelation 9:21 - their sorceries Revelation 13:14 - deceiveth Revelation 16:10 - upon Revelation 19:2 - judged

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee,.... Either for common use, or at feasts, or at marriages, which being kept at night, required candies, lamps, or torches; this shows that Babylon, or Rome, shall be deprived of everything, even of the least thing that is comfortable in life; see Jeremiah 25:10 this will be a just punishment upon her for her abuse of this blessing of life; so where wax candles in great numbers have been burning in the daytime, there will not be so much as a single candle to give light in the night; and where candles have been lighted up for the dead, there will not be one for the use of the living:

and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: there will be no marrying, nor giving in marriage; no procreation of children, or propagation of posterity, in this place; which denotes the utter extirpation of the inhabitants of it; the phrases are taken from Jeremiah 7:34

Jeremiah 25:10 and this will be in righteous retaliation for the prohibition of marriage; which God has instituted, and is honourable, 1 Timothy 4:2 the reasons of Babylon's destruction follow:

for thy merchants were the great men of the earth: in allusion to the merchants of Tyre, said to be princes, Isaiah 23:8 for by trading and dealing in the wares and merchandise of Rome, persons of mean extract, and of very low circumstances of life, have grown exceeding rich, and have equalled the princes of the earth; as for instance, Cardinal Wolsey here in England, a butcher's son at Ipswich; and on the other hand, the princes and great men of the earth have become Rome's merchants, and have thought it an high honour to get a cardinal's hat, as the Cardinals Albertus duke of Austria, Bourbon, Pool, and others, mentioned by Brightman:

for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived; meaning her false doctrines, traditions, idolatry, superstition, and will worship, with which, as another Jezebel, she has bewitched, allured, and deceived the nations of the empire, and the kings thereof, Revelation 18:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee - Another image of desolation, as if every light were put out, and there were total darkness.

And the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee - The merry and cheerful voice of the marriage procession in the streets (notes on Matthew 25:1-7), or the cheerful, glad voice of the newly-married couple in their own dwelling (notes on John 3:29).

For thy merchants were the great men of the earth - Those who dealt with thee were the rich, and among them were even nobles and princes; and now that they trade with thee no more there is occasion for lamentation and sorrow. The contrast is great between the time when distinguished foreigners crowded thy marts, and now, when none of any kind come to traffic with thee. The origin of this representation is probably the description of Tyre in Ezekiel 27:0.

For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived - This is stated as a reason for the ruin that had come upon her. It is a common representation of papal Rome that she has deceived or deluded the nations of the earth (see the notes on Revelation 13:14), and no representation ever made accords more with facts as they have occurred. The word “sorceries” here refers to the various arts the tricks impostures, and false pretences by which this has been done. See the notes on Revelation 9:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 23. By thy sorceries — Political arts, state tricks, counterfeit miracles, and deceptive manoeuvres of every kind. This may be spoken of many great cities of the world, which still continue to flourish!