1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
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I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)We had one burden of Babylon before (Isa. 13:1-22); here we have another prediction of its fall. God saw fit thus to possess his people with the belief of this event by line upon line, because Babylon sometimes pretended to be a friend to them (as Isa. 39:1), and God would hereby warn them not to trust to that friendship, and sometimes was really an enemy to them, and God would hereby warn them no…
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