Isaiah 13:1

The superscription, prefixed by an editor who attributed the prophecy to Isaiah.

The burden Rather, The utterance, or "oracle." The word occurs ten times in the headings of this section of the book (also in ch. Isaiah 30:6). The Heb. is massâ", and means literally a "lifting up (of the voice)." See 2 Kings 9:25. The A.V., following several ancient versions, takes it in its commoner sense of "burden" (thing lifted), a confusion which seems as old as the time of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 23:33-40) and Ezekiel (Ezekiel 12:10).

which Isaiah … did see See on Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 2:1.