Owls. Or jackals, which resemble foxes, and going in packs, will devour the largest creatures. (Bochart) (Parkhurst in aje.) (Haydock) --- But St. Jerome explains it of birds, Job xxviii. 7., and Leviticus xiv. --- Sirens, fabulously supposed to be sweet singing women with wings. --- Thannim denotes some great sea monsters, such as whales or sea calves. (Calmet)
Verse Isaiah 13:22. _IN THEIR PLEASANT PALACES_ - "In their palaces"] באלמנותיו _bealmenothaiv_; a plain mistake, I presume, for בארמנתיו _bearmenothaiv_. It is so corrected in _two_ MSS., the _Syriac...
AND THE WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLANDS - (איים _'ı̂yı̂ym_); see the notes at Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 41:1, on the word rendered ‘islands.’ The word denotes islands, or coasts, and as those coasts and islands...
2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...
THE WILD BEASTS. jackals. DRAGONS, or wild dogs....
_the wild beasts of the islands_ R.V. WOLVES. The word has certainly nothing to do with that for "island." It probably comes from another root meaning "to howl"; but again it is impossible to specify...
It shall be haunted by wild beasts and creatures of demon kind, like the _jinn_of the Arabs. See ch. Isaiah 34:11-15; Zephaniah 2:14 f.; Jeremiah 50:39;...
Babylon, after its overthrow, shall be a perpetual desolation....
AND BABYLON, THE GLORY— The prophet in this eloquent passage describes to us the consequence of the fury of the enemy raised up by God against Babylon; namely, the devastation and desolation of Babylo...
c. PROLONGATION OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:17-22 17 Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it, 18 And their bows sh...
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. THE WILD BEASTS OF...
1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...
THE WILD.. HOUSES] RV 'wolves shall cry in their castles.' DRAGONS] RV 'jackals.' The anticipation of the utter ruin of Babylon has been literally fulfilled. In 538 b.c. it was captured by the Medes a...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 13 The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLANDS... — The Authorised version rests on a false etymology of the words, which strictly mean “wailers,” and in its form _ey_ probably represents the cry of a wild beast, such as...
וְ עָנָ֤ה אִיִּים֙ בְּ אַלְמנֹותָ֔יו וְ תַנִּ
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
REFLECTIONS READER! we have been now attending to the inspired penman's account of the burden of Babylon. And we who live in gospel days, have lived to see the accomplishment of God's denunciation aga...
I pray the Reader to read this prophecy very attentively, and mark well the awful destruction threatened. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed in a day; and Babylon in a night. In the same moment when Be...
22._And Iim shall cry _(211) He expresses the same thing as had been formerly said, and shows how dreadful that change will be, in order to make it manifest that it proceeds from the judgment of God,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
AND THE WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLANDS SHALL CRY IN THEIR DESOLATE HOUSES,.... The Targum and Syriac version, "in their palaces", and so the Vulgate Latin; or "with their widows", such as have lost their...
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. Ver. 22. _And the...
Isa. 13:20-22. "It shall never be inhabited. But 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 ther...
The _wild beasts of the desert shall lie there_ Which was literally fulfilled, as we have just seen, in Jerome's time, when it was a forest for breeding wild beasts, or a royal chase for hunting. _And...
And the wild beasts of the islands, probably hyenas, SHALL CRY IN THEIR DESOLATE HOUSES, in the ruined palaces of the city, AND DRAGONS IN THEIR PLEASANT PALACES, jackals or wolves being among the inh...
AGAINST BABYLON IN PARTICULAR...
beasts of the Islands: _ Heb._ Zim DESOLATE: Or, palaces...
19-22 Babylon was a noble city; yet it should be wholly destroyed. None shall dwell there. It shall be a haunt for wild beasts. All this is fulfilled. The fate of this proud city is a proof of the tr...
HER TIME IS NEAR TO COME; so it was, though not according to man's rash judgment and impatient expectation, yet according to God's estimation, and to the eye of faith, whereby Abraham saw Christ's day...
Isaiah 13:22 hyenas H338 howl H6030 (H8804) citadels H490 jackals H8577 pleasant H6027 palaces H1964 time H6256 near
A VIVID PICTURE OF BABYLON'S FUTURE AND ITS END (ISAIAH 13:17). Having depicted the destruction of Babylon in apocalyptic terms Isaiah brings it down to earth. He partly does it in terms of the Medes....
CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The b...
_Babylon. .. shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah_ THE RE-ENTRIES OF NATURE All this we may say is historical and local. On the other hand, all this is moral and suggestive. This proces...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:20 IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED. This eerie scene contrasts with the magnificence of v. Isaiah 13:19 and the messianic paradise of...
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
2 Peter 2:3; 2 Peter 3:10; 2 Peter 3:9; Deuteronomy 32:35; Ezekiel 7:7
Prolonged — Beyond the time appointed by God....