Isaiah 21:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Isaiah 21:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nahum 1:10
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Esther 7:6-10
And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. …
Job 21:11-13
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. …
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

Topics

Armies Babel Babylon Chaldea Government Mesopotamia Nebuchadnezzar Nimrod

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. panted--“is bewildered” [Barnes]. night of my pleasure--The prophet supposes himself one of the banqueters at Belshazzar’s feast, on the night that Babylon was about to be taken by surprise; hence his expression, “my pleasure” (Is 14:11; Jr 51:39; Da 5:1-31).