Isa 13:14, 25:2, 12 | JFB | STEP | 14. it —Babylon. roe —gazelle; the most timid and easily startled. no man taketh up —sheep defenseless, without a shepherd ( ). every man . . . to his own people —The "mingled peoples" of foreign lands shall flee out of her ( ).

Isaiah 13:14

14. it—Babylon.

roe—gazelle; the most timid and easily startled.

no man taketh up—sheep defenseless, without a shepherd (Zec 13:7).

every man . . . to his own people—The "mingled peoples" of foreign lands shall flee out of her (Jer 50:16, 28, 37; 51:9).

Isaiah 25:2

2. a city . . . heap—Babylon, type of the seat of Antichrist, to be destroyed in the last days (compare Jer 51:37, with Re 18:1-24, followed, as here, by the song of the saints' thanksgiving in Re 19:1-21). "Heaps" is a graphic picture of Babylon and Nineveh as they now are.

palace—Babylon regarded, on account of its splendor, as a vast palace. But MAURER translates, "a citadel."

of strangers—foreigners, whose capital pre-eminently Babylon was, the metropolis of the pagan world. "Aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise" (Isa 29:5; Eph 2:12; see in contrast, Joe 3:17).

never be built— (Isa 13:19, 20, &c.).

Isaiah 25:12

12. fortress—the strongholds of Moab, the representative of the foes of God's people [BARNES]. Babylon [MAURER]. The society of infidels represented as a city (Re 11:8).