Chapter 13:
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Isaiah 13
13:1 The
a
burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
(
a) That is, the great calamity which was
prophesied to come on Babel, a grievous burden which they were not able to
bear. In these twelve chapters following he speaks of the plagues with which
God would smite the strange nations (whom they knew) to declare that God
chastised the Israelites as his children and these others as his enemies: and
also that if God does not spare these who are ignorant, they must not think
strange if he punishes them who have knowledge of his Law, and do not keep it.
13:2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain,
exalt the voice to them, shake the
b
hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
(
b) That is, the Medes and Persians.
13:3 I have commanded my
c
sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, [even] them
that rejoice in my
d highness.
(
c) That is, prepared and appointed to execute my
judgments.
(
d) Who willingly go about to the work to which I
appoint them, but how the wicked do this, read (
Isaiah
10:6).
13:5 They come from a far
country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and the
e
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
(
e) The army of the Medes and the Persians
against Babylon.
13:6 Wail
f
ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from
the Almighty.
(
f) You Babylonians.
13:8 And they shall be
afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a
woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall
be as]
g flames.
(
g) The Babylonians anger and grief will be so
much that their faces will burn as fire.
13:10 For the
h
stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall
be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
(
h) They who are overcome will think that all the
powers of heaven and earth are against them, (
Ezekiel
32:7;
Joel
3:15;
Matthew
24:29).
13:11 And I will punish the
i
world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the
arrogance of the
k proud to cease, and
will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
(
i) He compares Babylon to the whole world
because they so esteemed themselves by reason of their great empire.
(
k) He notes the principal vice, to which they
are most given as are all that abound in wealth.
13:12 I will make a
l
man more rare than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
(
l) He notes the great slaughter that will be,
seeing the enemy will neither for gold or silver spare a man's life as in (
Isaiah
13:17).
13:14 And
m
it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall
every man turn to his own people, and flee every one to his own land.
(
m) Meaning the power of Babylon with their hired
soldiers.
13:16 Their
n
children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be
plundered, and their wives ravished.
(
n) This was not accomplished when Cyrus took
Babylon, but after the death of Alexander the great.
13:20
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the
o Arabian
pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
(
o) Who used to go from country to country to
find pasture for their beasts, but they will find none.
13:21 But
p
wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of
doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
(
p) Who were either wild beasts or fools, or
wicked spirits, by which Satan deluded man, as by the fairies, goblins, and
such like fantasies.
Chapter 13:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
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