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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Isaiah 21:4

My heart panted, beating wildly, fearfulness affrighted me, with a terrifying, numbing force; the night of my pleasure, the darkness of night, which ordinarily was pleasant to the prophet on account of the bodily rest and the conduciveness to quiet contemplation associated with it, hath He turned into fear unto me, namely, on account of the horrible vision connected with it in this instance.

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See also Isaiah 21:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MY HEART PANTED - Margin, ‘My mind wandered.’ The Hebrew word rendered ‘panted’ (תעה _tâ‛âh_) means to wander about; to stagger; to be giddy; and is applied often to one that staggers by being intox...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 21 The Burdens of the Desert of the Sea, of Dumah, and Arabia 1. _The burden of the desert of the sea (Babylon) (Isaiah 21:1)_ 2. _The burden of Dumah (Isaiah 21:11)_ 3. The burden upon Arabi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CAPTURE OF BABYLON. This prophecy describes a siege and capture of Babylon by Elam and Media. It is almost universally considered to have been written shortly before the capture of Babylon by Cyru...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NIGHT.. _Homonym._ Hebrew. _nesheph =_ darkness, here, but daylight in Job 7:4; 1 Samuel 30:17. See notes there. The Revised Version, in doubt, renders it here "twilight". PLEASURE. joy. FEAR. tremb...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The agitation and terror of the prophet....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _My heart panted_ lit. STRAYETH; as we should say "my reason reels." "Heart," as often, is used of the intellect. _fearfulness_ R.V. HORROR. _the night of my pleasure_ i.e. "my pleasant evening hours...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEREFORE ARE MY LOINS FILLED WITH PAIN, &C.— We have here a symbolical description of the greatness of the Babylonish calamity; the prophet exhibiting in himself, as in a figure, an emblem of the ext...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. IRREVERENT ENEMIES - Chapter S 21-23 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 1. BABYLON, EDOM AND ARABIA a. BABYLON TEXT: Isaiah 21:1-10 1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. MY HEART PANTED, [ taa`aah (H8582)] - literally, erred: so palpitated (Psalms 38:10). The ni...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    21:4 panteth, (i-3) Or 'is restless,' lit. 'wanders.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    VISION OF BABYLON'S FALL The subject of this section is the siege of Babylon, and the dismay with which the prophet receives tidings of its fall. The siege referred to can scarcely be the one at the c...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 21 ENEMIES DESTROY BABYLON V1 A special message about Babylon that God gave to Isaia...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    תָּעָ֣ה לְבָבִ֔י פַּלָּצ֖וּת בִּֽעֲתָ֑תְנִי אֵ֚ת נֶ֣שֶׁף...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XI DRIFTING TO EGYPT 720-705 13. B.C. Isaiah 20:1; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1 FROM 720, when chapter 11 m

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this chapter we have prophecies concerning Babylon, Dumah, and Arabia. With regard to Babylon, the prophet has seen the vision of the whirlwind sweeping against it, and so terrible is it that he is...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    My heart panted, fearfulness terrified me: the night (g) of my pleasure hath he turned into fear to me. (g) He prophecies the death of Belshazzar as in (Daniel 5:30) who in the midst of his pleasures...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Babylon. Protestants, "the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me." Septuagint, "My soul is turned into fear." (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here the Prophet describes as it should seem, the terrible consternation and alarm, the impious monarch of Babylon would be thrown into, in the memorable night of his destruction. Let the Reader compa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._My heart was shaken. _Others render it not amiss, “my heart wandered;” for excessive terror moves the heart, as it were, out of its place. He declares how sudden and unlooked for will be the destru...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MY HEART PANTED,.... Fluttered about, and could hardly keep its place: or, "my mind wandered" r; like a person in distraction and confusion, that knew not what to think say or do: FEARFULNESS AFFRIGH...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. Ver. 4. _My heart panted._] Or, Fluttereth to and fro, as not able to keep in its place. _Viro i...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore my loins_, &c. “We have here a symbolical description of the greatness of the Babylonish calamity; the prophet exhibiting in himself, as in a figure, an emblem of the extreme distress, cons...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MY HEART PANTED: Or, my mind wandered TURNED: _ Heb._ put...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 Babylon was a flat country, abundantly watered. The destruction of Babylon, so often prophesied of by Isaiah, was typical of the destruction of the great foe of the New Testament church, foretol...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE NIGHT OF MY PLEASURE; the night, in which I used to have a sweet repose and sleep. He seems to have had this vision in a night. But withal this horror of the prophet by night was typical, and did...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 21:4 heart H3824 wavered H8582 (H8804) fearfulness H6427 frightened H1204 (H8765) night H5399 longed H2837 turn

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 21 THE BURDENS ON THE WILDERNESS OF THE SEA, ON DUMAH AND ON ARABIA. We now come to the second five of the ten burdens. And here we pause to note the careful way in which the prophecy has been...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BURDEN OF THE WILDERNESS OF THE SEA (ISAIAH 21:1). The interpretations of this prophecy have been varied although all finally must relate it to one of the sackings of Babylon (Isaiah 21:9) of whic...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Four burdens anticipating Sennacherib's invasion. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Neither the skill of archers nor the courage of mighty men can protect a people from the judgments of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 21:1. _The desert of the sea._ The army which invaded Babylon came not directly against it; but Cyrus made a circuitous route, and collected part of his army from the deserts and mountains towa...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The burden of the desert of the sea_ THE DESERT OF THE SEA This enigmatical name for Babylon was no doubt suggested by the actual character of the country in which the city stood. It was an endless...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 21:1 Five new oracles reveal God’s ruling and judging the wilderness by the sea (Isaiah 21:1), Dumah ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 21:3 THE TWILIGHT I LONGED FOR... TREMBLING. The prophet longed to see God intervene in the world, but he trembles when he sees the reality of that intervention....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 21:1 THE BURDEN OF THE DESERT OF THE SEA. This is a short and somewhat vague, but highly poetic, "burden of Babylon" It is probably an earlier prophecy than...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn to Isaiah, chapter 21. Isaiah begins this particular prophecy and addresses it to Babylon which was referred to as, The desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass (Isaiah 21:1)...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 25:36; 2 Samuel 13:28; 2 Samuel 13:29; Daniel 5:1; Daniel

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The night — In which I used to have sweet repose. He seems to have had this vision in a night. But withal this signified that horror and destruction, which should befal the Babylonians in a night of f...

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