The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 1 The prophet, bewailing the captivity of his people, sees in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians.
11 Edom, scorning the prophet, is moved to repentance.
13 The set time of Arabia's calamity.
the burden. The first ten verses of this chapter contain a prediction of the taking of Babylon by the Medes and Persians; which is here denominated 'the desert of the sea,' because the country around it, and especially towards the sea, was a great morass, often overflowed by the Tigris and Euphrates, and only rendered habitable by being drained by a number of canals. Isa 13:1 17:1
the desert Isa 13:20-22 14:23 Jer 51:42
as whirlwinds Job 37:9 Da 11:40 Zec 9:14
from Isa 13:4,5,17,18 Eze 30:11 31:12

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Alphabetical: a An As by comes concerning Desert from in invader It land Like Negev of on oracle Sea southland sweep sweeping terrifying terror the through whirlwinds wilderness windstorms
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