Job 14:14, Isa 13-14, 21:1-10, Isa 47, Jer 25:11-12, Dan 9:2 | TSK | STEP | shall he live. all the days. will I wait.

Babylon.Babylon, whose destruction and utter ruin are here predicted, was situated in the midst of a large plain, having a very deep and fruitful soil, on the Euphrates, about 252 miles south-east of Palmyra, and the same distance north-west of Susa and the Persian gulf, in lat. 32 degrees 30' N. and long. 44 degrees 20' E. According to Herodotus, it formed a perfect square, each side of which was 120 stadia, and consequently its circumference 480 stadia, or sixty miles; inclosed by a wall 200 cubits high, and fifty wide, on the top of which were small watch towers of one story high, leaving a space between them, through which a chariot and four might pass and turn. On each side were twenty-five gates of solid brass; from each of which proceeded a street, 150 feet broad, making in all fifty streets; which, crossing each other at right angles, intersected the city into 676 squares, extending four stadia and a half on each side, along which stood the houses, all built three or four stories high, and highly decorated towards the street; the interior of these squares being employed as gardens, pleasure grounds, etc. Its principal ornaments were the temple of Belus, having a tower of eight stories, upon a base of a quarter of a mile square; a most magnificent palace; and the famous hanging gardens, or artificial mountains raised upon arches, and planted with large and beautiful trees. Cyrus took it by diverting the waters of the Euphrates, which ran through the midst, and entering by the channel; and the river being never restored to its proper course, overflowed the whole country, and made it a morass. Darius Hystaspes afterwards depopulated the place, lowered the walls, and demolished the gates; Xerxes destroyed the temples; the building of Seleucia nearly exhausted it of its inhabitants; a king of the Parthians carried a number of them into slavery, and destroyed the most beautiful parts; so that modern travellers describe it as a mass of shapeless ruins, the habitation of wild beasts.

14:4-6,12-15; Jer 51:41; Da 2:37,38; 4:30

when God overthrow. Heb. the overthrowing of.

Ge 19:24; De 29:23; Jer 49:18; 50:40; Zep 2:9

14:23; Jer 50:3,13,21,39,45; 51:25,29,43,62-64; Re 18:21-23

But.

34:11-15; Re 18:2

wild beasts. Heb. Ziim. doleful creatures. Heb. Ochim.owls. or, ostriches. Heb. daughters of the owl.

the wild beasts. Heb. Iim. desolate houses. or, palaces.dragons.

35:7

her time.

De 32:35; Jer 51:33; Eze 7:7-10; Hab 2:3; 2Pe 2:3; 3:9,10

Isaiah 14

1 God's merciful restoration of Israel.

3 Their triumphant exultation over Babel.

24 God's purpose against Assyria.

29 Palestina is threatened.

the Lord.

40:1,2; 44:21,22; 54:7,8; Le 26:40-45; De 4:29-31; Ne 1:8,9

Ps 98:3; 102:13; 136:10-24; 143:12; Jer 50:4-6,17-20,33

Jer 51:4-6,34-37; Lu 1:54,72-74

choose.

27:6; Zec 1:17; 2:12

set.

De 30:3-5; Jer 24:6,7; 29:14; 30:18-22; 31:8-12; 32:37-41

Eze 36:24-28; 39:25-29

the strangers.

19:24,25; 49:16-23; 56:6-8; 60:3-5; 66:20; Ru 1:14-18; Es 8:17

Jer 12:15,16; Zec 2:11; 8:22,23; Mal 1:11; Lu 2:32; Ac 15:14-17

Eph 2:12-19

and the house.

18:7; 60:9-12; 61:5; Ezr 2:65; Ro 15:27; 2Co 8:4,5; Ga 5:13

and they.

Ps 68:18; 2Co 10:5; Eph 4:8

whose captives they were. Heb. that had taken them captives.they shall rule over.

60:14; Jer 30:16; Da 7:18,25-27; Zec 14:2,3; Re 3:9; 11:11-18

Re 18:20-24

12:1; 32:18; De 28:48,65-68; Ezr 9:8,9; Jer 30:10; 46:27,28; 50:34

Eze 28:24; Zec 8:2,8; Re 18:20; 19:1-3

proverb. or, taunting speech.

Jer 24:9; Eze 5:15; Hab 2:6

How.

6,17; 47:5; 49:26; 51:23; Jer 25:9-14; 27:6,7; 50:22,23

Jer 51:20-24,34,35; Da 7:19-25; Hab 1:2-10; 2:6-12,17

Re 13:15-17; 16:5,6; 17:6; 18:5-8,20

golden city. or, exactress of gold.

13:19; 45:2,3; 2Ch 36:18; La 4:1; Da 2:38; Re 18:16

29; 9:4; 10:5; Ps 125:3; Jer 48:15-17

who smote.

33:1; 47:6; 2Ch 36:17; Jer 25:9; Da 7:19-21; Jas 2:13

continual stroke. Heb. a stroke without removing. ispersecuted.

13:14-18; 21:1-10; 47:1-15; Jer 25:26; 50:31; Re 17:16,17; 18:8-10

and none.

46:10,11; Job 9:13; Pr 21:30; Da 4:35

they.

49:13; Ps 96:11-13; 98:7-9; 126:1-3; Pr 11:10; Jer 51:48; Re 18:20

Re 19:1-6

55:12,13; Eze 31:16; Zec 11:2

Hell. or, The grave. from.

Pr 15:24

is moved.

Eze 32:21-32

chief ones. Heb. leaders, or, great goats.

Jer 50:8

Art thou also.

Ps 49:6-14,20; 82:6,7; Ec 2:16; Lu 16:20-23

pomp.

21:4,5; 22:2; Job 21:11-15; Eze 26:13; 32:19,20; Da 5:1-4,25-30

Am 6:3-7; Re 18:11-19

the worm.

66:24; Job 17:13,14; 24:19,20; Mr 9:43-48

How art thou fallen.

13:10; 34:4; Eze 28:13-17; Lu 10:18; 2Pe 2:4; Re 12:7-10

Lucifer. or, day-star.

2Pe 1:19; Re 2:28; 22:16

weaken.

4-6; Jer 50:23; 51:20-24

thou.

47:7-10; Eze 27:3; 28:2; 29:3; Da 4:30,31; Zep 2:15; Re 18:7,8

I will ascend.

Eze 28:9,12-16; Da 8:10-12

the mount.

2:2; Ps 48:2

ascend.

37:23,24

I will be.

47:8; Ge 3:5; 2Th 2:4

thou.

3-11; Eze 28:8,9; Mt 11:23; Ac 12:22,23; Re 19:20

to the.

Eze 32:23

shall narrowly.

Ps 58:10,11; 64:9

Is this.

4,5; Ps 52:7; Jer 50:23; 51:20-23

made.

13:19-22; 64:10; Eze 6:14; Joe 2:3; Zep 2:13,14

opened not the house of his prisoners. or, did not let hisprisoners loose homewards.

45:13; 58:6; 2Ch 28:8-15; Ezr 1:2-4

all of.

22:16; 2Ch 24:16,25; Ec 6:3; Eze 32:18-32

house.

Job 30:23; Ec 12:5

thou.The prophet having briefly set forth, in the beginning of this chapter, the deliverance of Judah from captivity, in consequence of the destruction of Babylon, then introduces this triumphant song, the beauties of which are excellently illustrated by Bp. Lowth.

1Ki 21:19,24; 2Ki 9:25,34-36; Jer 8:1,2; 16:6; 22:19

go.

Jer 41:7,9; Eze 32:23

the seed.

13:15-19; Job 18:16,19; Ps 21:10; 37:28; 109:13; 137:8,9

slaughter.

Ex 20:5; Le 26:39; Mt 23:35

do not.

27:6; Hab 2:8-12

I will.

13:5; 21:9; 43:14; 47:9-14; Jer 50:26,27,29-35; 51:3,4,56,57

the name.

Job 18:16-19; Pr 10:7; Jer 51:62-64

remnant.

1Ki 14:10

make.

13:21,22; 34:11-15; Jer 50:39,40; 51:42,43; Zep 2:14; Re 14:8

Re 18:2,21-23

I will sweep.

1Ki 14:10; 2Ki 21:13; Jer 51:25,26

Lord.

Ex 17:16; Ps 110:4; Jer 44:26; Am 8:7; Heb 4:3; 6:16-18

Surely.

46:10,11; Job 23:13; Ps 33:10; 92:5; Pr 19:21; 21:30; Jer 23:20

Jer 29:11; La 3:37; Mt 11:25; Ac 4:28; Eph 1:9

I will.

9:4; 10:16-19,32-34; 17:12-14; 30:30-33; 31:8,9; 37:36-38

Eze 39:4

then.

5; 10:24-27; Na 1:13

5:25; Zep 3:6-8

the Lord.

23:9; 43:13; 46:11; Job 40:8; Jer 4:28; 51:59; Ro 8:28,31

his.

9:12; 2Ch 20:6; Job 9:12; 23:13; Ps 33:11; Pr 19:21; 21:30

Da 4:31-35

A.M. 3278. B.C. 726.

6:1; 2Ki 16:20; 2Ch 28:27

Rejoice.

Pr 24:17; Eze 26:2; 35:15; Ho 9:1; Ob 1:12; Mic 7:8; Zep 3:11

whole.

Jos 13:3; 1Sa 6:17,18

because.

2Ch 26:6; 28:18

for.

2Ki 18:8

cockatrice. or, adder.

11:8

a fiery.

30:6

the firstborn.

Job 18:13

the poor.

5:17; 7:21,22; 30:23,24; 33:16; 37:30; 65:13,14

and I.

Jer 47:1-7; Eze 25:15-17; Joe 3:4-8; Am 1:6-8; Zep 2:4-7

Zec 9:5-7

Howl.

13:6; 16:7

for.

20:1; Jer 1:14; 25:16-20

none shall be alone. or, he shall not be alone. appointedtimes. or, assemblies.

shall one.

39:1; 2Sa 8:10; 2Ki 20:12-19

the Lord.

12:6; 37:32; Ps 87:1,5; 102:16,28; 132:13,14; Mt 16:18

and the.

11:4; 25:4; Zep 3:12; Zec 11:7,11; Jas 2:5

trust in it. or, betake themselves unto it.

Pr 18:10; Mt 24:15,16; Heb 12:22

Isaiah 21:1-10

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

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 25:11-12

seventy.This prophecy was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and began to be accomplished immediately; and it was exactly seventy years from this time to the proclamation of Cyrus for the return of the Jews.

12; 2Ch 36:21,22; Isa 23:15-17; Da 9:2; Zec 1:12; 7:5

when.

29:10; 2Ki 24:1; Ezr 1:1,2; Da 9:2

that I.

14; 50:1-51:64; De 32:35-42; Isa 13:1-14:32; 21:1-17; 46:1-47:15

Da 5:1-31; Hab 2:1-20; Re 18:1-24

punish. Heb. visit upon. See on ch.

23:2

perpetual.

50:3,13,23,39,40,45; 51:25,26,62-64; Isa 13:19; 14:23; 15:6

Isa 20:1-6; 47:1; Eze 35:9