Isa 13:19 | NETfull | STEP | Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.

Isaiah 13:19

19 Babylon, the most admired ^{▼▼ Or “most beautiful” (NCV, TEV).} of kingdoms,
the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, ^{▼▼ Heb “the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans.”} ^{▼▼ The Chaldeans were a group of tribes who lived in southern Mesopotamia. The established the so-called neo-Babylonian empire in the late seventh century b.c. Their most famous king, Nebuchadnezzar, conquered Judah in 605 b.c. and destroyed Jerusalem in 586 b.c.}
will be destroyed by God
just as Sodom and Gomorrah were. ^{▼▼ Heb “and Babylon…will be like the overthrow by God of Sodom and Gomorrah.” On מַהְפֵּכַת (mahpekhat, “overthrow”) see the note on the word “destruction” in 1:7.}