Desolate. This was effected in the course of many centuries. (Calmet) --- The building of Seleucia caused Babylon to be deserted. (Pliny, [Natural History?] vi. 27.) --- Hence we know not at present where it was situated.
THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH - See Isaiah 13:6. CRUEL - (אכזרי _'ak__e__zārı̂y_). This does not mean that “God” is cruel, but that the ‘day of Yahweh’ that was coming should be unsparing and destructiv...
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...
CRUEL. stern....
The middle division of the prophecy enlarges on the nature, purpose and effects of this day of Jehovah....
_land_ Rather, EARTH, as in Isaiah 13:5....
BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, &C.— The prophet begins here to describe the calamity itself coming upon the Babylonians, but in figures, according to his manner, grand, and adapted to raise a ter...
b. PURPOSE OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:9-16 9 Behold the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10...
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, CRUEL - not str...
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 ...
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...
‘The day of the *Lord’: see my note on verse 6....
הִנֵּ֤ה יֹום ־יְהוָה֙ בָּ֔א אַכְזָרִ֥י וְ עֶב
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...
In the figurative language of prophecy, the Lord describes the destruction of Babylon. The army that shall come against Babylon, the Lord calls his sanctified ones, and his mighty ones. By sanctified,...
9._Behold the day of the Lord will come cruel. _He repeats what he had slightly noticed a little before, that though the inhabitants of Babylon are now at ease, and rely on their wealth, _the day of t...
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...
BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH,.... Or "is come" e; said in Isaiah 13:6 to be at hand, but now it is represented in prophecy as already come: CRUEL BOTH WITH WRATH AND FIERCE ANGER; which, whethe...
_Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it._ Ver. 9. _Behold the day of the Lord cometh...
_Behold the day cruel both with wrath and fierce anger_ Dr. Waterland renders the clause, _fierceness, wrath, and hot anger:_ divers words are heaped together, to signify the extremity of the divine i...
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, the day of His vengeance, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, consuming with its heat, TO LAY THE LAND DESOLATE; AND HE SHALL DESTROY THE SINNERS THEREOF OUT OF...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPHECIES OF WRATH...
6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...
CRUEL BOTH WITH WRATH AND FIERCE ANGER; divers words are heaped together, to signify the extremity of his anger. THE SINNERS THEREOF; the inhabitants of that city, who were guilty of so much idolatry...
Isaiah 13:9 day H3117 LORD H3068 comes H935 (H8804) Cruel H394 wrath H5678 fierce H2740 anger H639 lay...
THE APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (ISAIAH 13:6). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and it will se...
DAY OF THE LORD (Day of Jehovah) vs. (Isaiah 2:10); (Isaiah 4:1); (Isaiah 11:10); (Isaiah 13:9); ...
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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:1 God’s Judgment and Grace for the World: “We Have a Strong City.” Isaiah stresses God’s complete power over all the nations. God rules history to achieve his goals....
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...
Isaiah 13:15; Isaiah 47:10; Jeremiah 50:40; Jeremiah 51:35;...
Behold — Divers words are heaped together, to signify the extremity of his anger....