Isa 21:1 | TSK | STEP | The prophet, bewailing the captivity of his people, sees in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Edom, scorning the prophet, is moved to repentance. The set time of Arabia's calamity. 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. the desert. As whirlwinds. from.

Isaiah 21:1

1 The prophet, bewailing the captivity of his people, sees in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians.

11 Edom, scorning the prophet, is moved to repentance.

13 The set time of Arabia's calamity.

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