Isaiah 21:2 NASB

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 21:1-17

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 filled with horror. Babylon, all unconscious, is described as given over to carousal. The prophet at the command of Jehovah has been on the watch tower and has now seen the foe coming against Babylon. He makes this the occasion of warning to his own people. Very brief but very forceful is the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:1-10

The Burden of the Wilderness of the Sea (Isaiah 21:1-10 ). 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 which there were a number. The area around the Persian Gulf in southern Babylonia was called in ancient times ‘mat tamtim’ (‘the land of the sea’, in Akkadian). Perhaps there is then a prophetic recognition here in the term ‘wilderness of the sea’ that it was to be turned into a wilderness. As... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:1-17

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 put together. Like the first of the ten this sixth burden refers to Babylon. But while the first referred to a triumphant Babylon, then humiliated, this time it is a Babylon defeated from the beginning. The third burden spoke of Moab and its search for refuge from Assyria, and ended with the time... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:1-10

Isaiah 21:1-2 Samuel : . 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 Cyrus in 538. The attempts made by a few critics to refer it to a capture of Babylon by Assyria in Isaiah’ s time — 710, 703, or 696— have not been successful. The title “ wilderness of the sea” is difficult. Possibly the point is that Babylon is to become a marshy desert (... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 21:2

A grievous vision; a vision or prophecy, containing dreadful calamities which were to fall upon Babylon. The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth: this is spoken either, 1. Of the Chaldeans, as their sin, for which God sends the following judgment. So the sense is, The Chaldeans still persist in the practice of treachery and rapine, to which they have been so long accustomed. Or, 2. Of the Medes and Persians, who are here noted to pay the Babylonians in their own... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:1-17

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 )Or in the Negev. We call them sun devils out in Arizona. You've seen those whirlwinds that have been created by the sun out there in the desert and they move along and pick up dust and weeds and trash. "As whirlwinds in the south pass,"so it cometh from the desert, from an awesome land. A grievous... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 21:1-17

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 towards the Caspian sea. Others call Babylon a sea, because at Easter, the time of the first fruits, Sir 24:25 , the rivers Pison or Tigris, &c. overflowed their banks, by the melting snows on the mountains of Armenia. Bishop Lowth has much relieved this prophecy of the fall of Babylon by the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 21:1-10

Isaiah 21:1-10The burden of the desert of the seaThe desert of the seaThis enigmatical name for Babylon was no doubt suggested by the actual character of the country in which the city stood.It was an endless breadth or succession of undulations “like the sea,” without any cultivation or even any tree: low, level, and full of great marshes; and which used to be overflowed by the Euphrates, till the whole plain became a sea, before the river was banked in by Semiramis, as Herodotus says. But the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 21:2

Isa 21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. Ver. 2. A grievous vision. ] Heb., Hard, harsh, tyrannorum speculum: here is hard for hard; God loveth to retaliate. Babylon had been the "maul of the earth"; Jer 51:20 now a hard messenger is sent, a harsh vision is declared against her. They who do what they should not, shall hear what they... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 21:2

grievous: Heb. hard, Psalms 60:3, Proverbs 13:15 the treacherous: Isaiah 24:16, Isaiah 33:1, 1 Samuel 24:13, Jeremiah 51:44, Jeremiah 51:48, Jeremiah 51:49, Jeremiah 51:53, Revelation 13:10 Go up: Isaiah 13:2-Numbers :, Isaiah 13:17, Isaiah 13:18, Jeremiah 50:14, Jeremiah 50:34, Jeremiah 49:34, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28, Daniel 5:28, Daniel 8:20 all the: Isaiah 14:1-Leviticus :, Isaiah 35:10, Isaiah 47:6, Psalms 12:5, Psalms 79:11, Psalms 137:1-Leviticus :, Jeremiah... read more