Isaiah 21:1
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 13:4-5, Isa 13:17-18; Ezek 30:11, Ezek 31:12
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