Isa 13:14-18, 21:1-10, Isa 47, Jer 25:26, 50:31, Rev 17:16-17, 18:8-10 | TSK | STEP

The burden.The first ten verses of this chapter contain a prediction of the taking of Babylon by the Medes and Persians; which is here denominated "the desert of the sea," because the country around it, and especially towards the sea, was a great morass, often overflowed by the Tigris and Euphrates, and only rendered habitable by being drained by a number of canals.

13:1; 17:1

the desert.

13:20-22; 14:23; Jer 51:42

As whirlwinds.

Job 37:9; Da 11:40; Zec 9:14

from.

13:4,5,17,18; Eze 30:11; 31:12

grievous. Heb. hard.

Ps 60:3; Pr 13:15

the treacherous.

24:16; 33:1; 1Sa 24:13; Jer 51:44,48,49,53; Re 13:10

Go up.

13:2-4,17,18; Jer 50:14,34; 49:34; 51:11,27,28; Da 5:28; 8:20

all the.

14:1-3; 35:10; 47:6; Ps 12:5; 79:11; 137:1-3; Jer 31:11,12,20,25

Jer 45:3; 51:3,4; La 1:22; Mic 7:8-10; Zec 1:15,16

are.

15:5; 16:9,11; Hab 3:16

pangs have.

13:8; 26:17; Ps 48:6; Jer 48:41; 49:22; 50:43; Mic 4:9,10; 1Th 5:3

I was bowed.

De 28:67; Da 5:5,6

heart panted. or, mind wandered. the night.

5:11-14; 1Sa 25:36-38; 2Sa 13:28,29; Es 5:12; 7:6-10

Job 21:11-13; Jer 51:39,57; Da 5:1,5,30; Na 1:10; Lu 21:34-36

turned. Heb. put.

eat.

22:13,14; Da 5:1-5; 1Co 15:32

arise.

13:2,17,18; 45:1-3; Jer 51:11,27,28

Go.

62:6; 2Ki 9:17-20; Jer 51:12,13; Eze 3:17; 33:2-7; Hab 2:1,2

And he saw.

9; 37:24

he hearkened.

Heb 2:1

cried, A lion. or, cried as a lion.

5:29; Jer 4:7; 25:38; 49:19; 50:44; 1Pe 5:8

I stand.

56:10; 62:6; Ps 63:6; 127:1; Hab 2:1,2

whole nights. or, every night.

behold.

Jer 50:3,9,29,42; 51:27

Babylon.

13:19; 14:4; Jer 50:2; 51:8,64; Re 14:8; 18:2,21

all.

46:1,2; Jer 50:2,38; 51:44,47,52

my threshing.

41:15,16; 2Ki 13:7; Jer 51:33; Mic 4:13; Hab 3:12; Mt 3:12

corn. Heb. son. that which.

1Ki 22:14; Eze 3:17-19; Ac 20:26,27

Isaiah 47

1 God's judgment upon Babylon and Chaldea,

6 for their unmercifulness,

7 pride,

10 and overboldness,

11 shall be irresistible.

down.

3:26; 26:5; 52:2; Job 2:8,13; Ps 18:27; Jer 13:18; 48:18

La 2:10,21; Eze 26:16; 28:17; Ob 1:3,4; Jon 3:6

O virgin.

37:22; Jer 46:11

daughter.

Ps 137:8; Jer 50:42; 51:33; Zec 2:7

there is.

14:13,14; Ps 89:44; Hag 2:22

thou shalt.

7-9; 32:9-11; De 28:56,57; La 4:5; Re 18:7

the millstones.

Ex 11:5; Jud 16:21; Job 31:10; Jer 27:7; La 5:13; Mt 24:41

Lu 17:35

make bare.

3:17; 20:4; Jer 13:22,26; Eze 16:37-39; Ho 2:3; Mic 1:11; Na 3:5,6

I will take.

34:1-8; 59:17,18; 63:4-6; De 32:35,41-43; Ps 94:1,2; 137:8,9

Jer 13:22,26; 50:27,28; 51:4,11,20-24,34-36,56; Ro 12:19

Heb 10:30,31; Na 3:5; Re 6:9,10; 16:19; 18:5-8,20

our redeemer.

41:14; 43:3,14; 44:6; 49:26; 54:5; Jer 31:11; 50:33,34

silent.

13:20; 14:23; 1Sa 2:9; Ps 31:17; 46:10; Jer 25:10; La 1:1; Hab 2:20

Zec 2:13; Mt 22:12,13; Jude 1:13; Re 18:21-24

for.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.

7; 13:19; 14:4; Da 2:37,38; Re 17:3-5,18; 18:7,16-19

wroth.

10:6; 42:24,25; 2Sa 24:14; 2Ch 28:9; Ps 69:26; Zec 1:15

I have polluted.

43:28; La 2:2; Eze 24:21; 28:16

thou didst.

13:16; 14:17; Ob 1:10,16; Mt 7:2; Jas 2:13

upon.

De 28:50

thou saidst.

5; Eze 28:2,12-14; 29:3; Da 4:29; 5:18-23

so that.

46:8,9; De 32:29; Jer 5:31; Eze 7:3-9

given.

21:4,5; 22:12,13; 32:9; Jud 18:7,27; Jer 50:11; Da 5:1-4,30

Zep 2:15; Re 18:3-8

I am.

10; Jer 50:31,32; 51:53; Da 4:22,30; 5:23; 11:36; Hab 2:5-8; 2Th 2:4

I shall not.

Ps 10:5,6; Na 1:10; Lu 12:18-20; 17:27-29; Re 18:7

these two.

51:18,19; Ru 1:5,20; Lu 7:12,13

in a moment.

13:19; Ps 73:19; 1Th 5:3; Re 18:8-10

they shall come.

13:20-22; 14:22,23; Jer 51:29,62-64; Re 18:21-23

for the multitude.

12,13; Da 2:2; 4:7; 5:7; Na 3:4; 2Th 2:9,10; Re 9:20,21; 18:23

Re 21:8; 22:15

thou hast trusted.

28:15; 59:4; Ps 52:7; 62:9

thou hast said.

29:15; Job 22:13,14; Ps 10:11; 64:5; 94:7-9; Ec 8:8; Jer 23:24

Eze 8:12; 9:9

Thy wisdom.

5:21; Eze 28:2-6; Ro 1:22; 1Co 1:19-21; 3:19

perverted thee. or, caused thee to turn away. I am.

thou shalt not know.

37:36; Ex 12:29,30; Ne 4:11; Re 3:3

from whence it riseth. Heb. the morning thereof. thou shaltnot be.

Ps 50:22; Jer 51:39-42; Da 5:25-30; 1Th 5:3; Re 18:9,10

put it off. Heb. expiate.

Mt 18:34; Lu 12:59

9,10; 8:19; 19:3; 44:25; Ex 7:11; 8:7,18,19; 9:11; Jer 2:28; Da 5:7-9

Na 3:4; Ac 13:8-12; 2Th 2:9-12; Re 17:4-6

wearied.

57:10; Eze 24:12; Hab 2:13

Let now.

44:25; Da 2:2-10; 5:7,8,15,16,30

astrologers, the stargazers. Heb. viewers of the heavens.the monthly prognosticators. Heb. that gave knowledge concerning the months.

they shall.

40:24; 41:2; Eze 15:7; Ps 83:13-15; Joe 2:5; Ob 1:18; Na 1:10; Mal 4:1

themselves Heb. their souls.

Mt 10:28; 16:26

there shall.

30:14; Jer 51:25,26; Re 18:21

thy merchants.

56:11; Eze 27:12-25; Re 18:11-19

they shall.Babylon was replenished from all nations, by a concourse of people, whom Jeremiah (ch. 50:37) calls "the mingled people." All these, at the approach of Cyrus, sought to escape to their several countries.

Jer 51:6-9; Re 18:15-17

Jeremiah 25:26

all the kings.

9; 50:9; Eze 32:30

and the.

51:41

drink.

12; 50:1-51:64; Isa 13:1-14:32; 47:1-15; Da 5:1-31; Hab 2:16

Re 18:1-24

Jeremiah 50:31

I am.

21:13; 51:25; Eze 5:8; 29:3,9,10; 38:3; 39:1; Na 2:13; 3:5

O thou.

29,32; 48:29; 49:16; Job 40:11,12; Da 4:30,31; Hab 2:4,5; Jas 4:6

1Pe 5:5

most proud. Heb. pride. for.

Revelation of John 17:16-17

the ten.

2,10,12

these.The ten horns, which the angel explained of "ten kings" or kingdoms, and which once exalted and supported her ecclesiastical tyranny, will hate, desolate, strip, and devour her. They will be the principal instruments in the destruction of popery and the ruin of Rome itself.

1,2,13; 16:12; Isa 13:17,18; Jer 50:41,42

and naked.

18:16,17; Eze 16:37-44; 23:45-49

eat.

Job 31:31; Ps 27:2; Da 7:5

and burn.

18:8,16; Le 21:9

God hath.

13; Ac 4:27,28

put.

Ezr 7:27; Ps 105:25; Pr 21:1; Jer 32:40; 2Th 2:10-12; Jas 1:13-17

to fulfil.