Verse 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.
A vision — A vision or prophecy, containing dreadful calamities which were to fall upon Babylon.
The spoiler — The Medes and Persians used treachery as well as force against Babylon.
Elam — Persia, so called, because Elam was an eminent province of Persia, bordering upon the Medes.
Besiege — Namely, Babylon, verse9.
The sighing — The sighing and groaning of God's people, and other nations under the oppressions of that cruel empire.
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