Isa 21 | 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 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

Dumah.Dumah is probably the same as Dumatha, a city of Arabia, mentioned by Stephanus, and the modern Dumah and Dumathalgandel, on the borders of Arabia and Syria, in a rocky valley. The Edomites, says Bp. Lowth, as well as Jews, were subdued by the Babylonians. They enquire of the prophet how long their subjection is to last; he intimates that the Jews should be delivered from their captivity; not so the Edomites. "The morning cometh, and also the night."

Ge 25:14; 1Ch 1:30

me out.

34:1-17; 63:1-6; Nu 24:18; De 2:5; Ps 137:7; Jer 49:7-22

Eze 35:1-15; Joe 3:19; Am 1:6,11,12; Ob 1:1-16; Mal 1:2-4

what.

6; Jer 37:17

The morning.

17:14; Jer 50:27; Eze 7:5-7,10,12

if.

55:7; Jer 42:19-22; Eze 14:1-6; 18:30-32; Ac 2:37,38; 17:19,20

Ac 17:30-32

Arabia.