22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
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My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. …
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: …
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-32)Here, 1. The forces are mustered and commissioned to destroy Babylon, and every thing is got ready for a descent upon that potent kingdom: Go up against that land by Merathaim , the country of the Mardi, that lay part in Assyria and part in Armenia; and go among the inhabitants of Pekod , another country (mentioned Ezek. 23:23) which Cyrus took in his way to Babylon. The forces of Cyrus are called…
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