Isa 21:1

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Isa 21:1 The prophet, bewailing the captivity of his people, sees in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians.

Isa 21:11 Edom, scorning the prophet, is moved to repentance.

Isa 21:13 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.

Isa 13:1; Isa 17:1

the desert.

Isa 13:20-22; Isa 14:23; Jer 51:42

As whirlwinds.

Job 37:9; Dan 11:40; Zech 9:14

from.

Isa 13:4; Isa 13:5; Isa 13:17; Isa 13:18; Ezek 30:11; Ezek 31:12