Isaiah 21:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
21 1 Of the destruction of Babylon by the Persians and Medes. 11 The ruin of Idumea, 13 and of Arabia.
1 The burden of the [a]desert sea. As the whirlwinds in the South used to pass from the wilderness, so shall it [b]come from the horrible land.
2 A grievous vision was showed unto me, The [c]Transgressor against a transgressor, and the destroyer against a destroyer. Go up [d]Elam, besiege Media: I have caused all the mourning [e]thereof to cease.
3 Therefore are my [f]loins filled with sorrow: sorrows have taken me as the sorrows of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down when I heard it, and I was amazed when I saw it.
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- Isaiah 21:1 On the seaside between Judea and Chaldea was a wilderness, whereby he meaneth Chaldea.
- Isaiah 21:1 That is, the ruin of Babylon by the Medes and Persians.
- Isaiah 21:2 The Assyrians and Chaldeans, which had destroyed other nations, shall be overcome of the Medes and Persians: and this he prophesied an hundred years before it came to pass.
- Isaiah 21:2 By Elam he meaneth the Persians.
- Isaiah 21:2 Because they shall find no succor, they shall mourn no more, or, I have caused them to cease mourning, whom Babylon had afflicted.
- Isaiah 21:3 This the Prophet speaketh in the person of the Babylonians.
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