_The desert of the sea. So Babylon is here called, because from a city as full of people as the sea is with water, it was become a desert. (Challoner) --- After its fall, it was mostly inundated, chap. xiii. 20. --- Land. Media and Persia, which lay to the south, and were not so beautiful as the env... [ Continue Reading ]
_Spoileth. Baltassar is incorrigible, or his opponents must proceed. (Calmet) --- Elam; that is, O Persia: (Challoner) Cyrus, and Darius, the Mede. (Calmet) --- The former nation was weak, and the latter strong. (Worthington) --- Cease. The enemy will shew no pity; nor shall I; as Babylon did not he... [ Continue Reading ]
_Pain. He bewails the crimes and the fall of Babylon, which at this time was in amity with Ezechias, ver. 10. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Babylon. Protestants, "the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me." Septuagint, "My soul is turned into fear." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXI. _ Drink. Persians refresh yourselves. --- Take up. Hebrew, "anoint." He may also allude to the Babylonians, who were feasting._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Camel. These two riders are the kings of the Persians and Medes. (Challoner) --- The sentinel, placed by Isaias, in spirit, or rather by the king of Babylon, brings these tidings. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Out. Literally, "He cried, a lion." (Haydock) --- Cyrus appears like one. Septuagint, "And call Urias to the watch-tower," &c., chap. viii. 2._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Horsemen, drawn by the ass and camel, ver. 7. This was verified long after._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Floor: you who must shortly be reduced to the utmost distress. Baladan was friendly to Ezechias. But Assaradon having seized Babylon, took Manasses prisoner; and the city thenceforward continued to fill up the measure of its sins. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Duma. That is, Idumea, or Edom. (Challoner) --- It was a city of that country, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis. (St. Jerome) --- Assaradon desolated Idumea the following year, ver. 16. The Jews absurdly apply to Rome what is said of Edom. (St. Jerome) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Night. Instead of joy, I must announce dreadful things. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Arabia. This sentence is not in the Roman (Calmet) or Alexandrian Septuagint, (Haydock) and Dedan is a city of Idumea. (Calmet) --- The Israelites are threatened. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Water. To neglect this was to be accessary to another's death, in those dreary regions, chap. xvi. 3., and Deuteronomy xxiii. 2._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hireling; counting precisely, chap. xvi. 14. (Calmet) --- Cedar: Arabia, (Challoner) near to Edom. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]