21 1 Of the destruction of Babylon by the Persians and Medes. 11 The ruin of Idumea,  13 and of Arabia.

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.

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.

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.

Mine heart failed: fearfulness troubled me: the night [g]of my pleasures hath he turned into fear unto me.

Prepare thou the table: watch in the watch tower: eat, drink: [h]arise, ye princes, anoint the shield:

For thus hath the [i]Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, to tell what he seeth.

And he saw a chariot with two horsemen: [j]a chariot of an ass, and a chariot of a camel: and he hearkened and took diligent heed.

And he cried, A [k]lion: my Lord, I stand continually upon the watch tower in the daytime, and I am set in my watch every night:

And behold, this man’s chariot cometh with two horsemen. And [l]he answered and said, (A)Babel is fallen: it is fallen, and all the images of her gods hath he broken unto the ground.

10 O [m]my threshing, and the [n]corn of my floor. That which I have heard of the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, have I showed unto you.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:1 On the seaside between Judea and Chaldea was a wilderness, whereby he meaneth Chaldea.
  2. Isaiah 21:1 That is, the ruin of Babylon by the Medes and Persians.
  3. 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.
  4. Isaiah 21:2 By Elam he meaneth the Persians.
  5. 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.
  6. Isaiah 21:3 This the Prophet speaketh in the person of the Babylonians.
  7. Isaiah 21:4 He prophesieth the death of Belshazzar, as Dan. 5:30, who in the midst of his pleasures was destroyed.
  8. Isaiah 21:5 While they are eating and drinking, they shall be commanded to run to their weapons.
  9. Isaiah 21:6 To wit, in a vision by the spirit of prophecy.
  10. Isaiah 21:7 Meaning, chariots of men of war, and others that carried the baggage.
  11. Isaiah 21:8 Meaning, Darius, which overcame Babylon.
  12. Isaiah 21:9 The watchman whom Isaiah set up, told him who came toward Babylon, and the Angel declared that it should be destroyed: all this was done in a vision.
  13. Isaiah 21:10 Meaning, Babylon.
  14. Isaiah 21:10 Hebrew, son.

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