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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:5

Prepare the table "The table is prepared" - In Hebrew the verbs are in the infinitive mood absolute, as in Ezekiel 1:14 ; : "And the animals ran and returned, ושוב רצוא ratso veshob , like the appearance of the lightning;" just as the Latins say, currere et reverti, for currebant et revertebantur . See Isaiah 33:11 ; (note), and the note there. Arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield - Kimchi observes that several of the rabbins understood this of Belshazzar's impious feast... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:7

And he saw a chariot, etc. "And he saw a chariot with two riders; a rider on an ass, a rider on a camel" - This passage is extremely obscure from the ambiguity of the term רכב recheb , which is used three times, and which signifies a chariot, or any other vehicle, or the rider in it; or a rider on a horse, or any other animal; or a company of chariots, or riders. The prophet may possibly mean a cavalry in two parts, with two sorts of riders; riders on asses or mules, and riders on... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:8

And he cried, A lion "He that looked out on the watch" - The present reading, אריה aryeh , a lion, is so unintelligible, and the mistake so obvious, that I make no doubt that the true reading is הראה haroeh , the seer; as the Syriac translator manifestly found it in his copy, who renders it by דקוא duka , a watchman. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:9

Here cometh a chariot of men, etc. "A man, one of the two riders" - So the Syriac understands it, and Ephrem Syr. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:1-9

The effect of God's judgments on the good and on the guilty. We gather, preliminarily: 1. That God uses not only elemental forces but human agents for the accomplishment of his righteous purposes. The winds and the waves are his ministers; but sometimes, as here, the whirlwinds he invokes are not the airs of heaven but the passions and agitations of human minds. 2. That the greatest human power is nothing in his mighty hand. Babylon was a "great power" indeed in human estimation at... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:1-10

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 Isaiah 13:1-22 . and 14; and perhaps the first revelation made to Isaiah with respect to the fall of the great Chaldean capital. It exhibits no consciousness of the fact that Babylon is Judah's predestined destroyer, and is expressive rather of sympathy (verses 3, 4) than of triumph. Among recent critics, some suppose it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:1-10

Fall of Babylon. It is thought, by some recent commentators, that the description refers to the siege of Babylon in B.C. 710 by Sargon the Assyrian. The King of Babylon at that time was Merodach-Baladan, who sent letters and a present to Hezekiah when he was sick ( Isaiah 39:1 ; 2 Kings 20:12 ). The prophet may well grieve over the fall of Babylon, as likely to drag down with it weaker kingdoms. I. THE SOUND OF THE TEMPEST . What sublime poesy have the prophets found in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:2

A grievous vision ; literally, a hard vision ; not, however, "hard of interpretation" (Kay), but rather "hard to be borne," "grievous," "calamitous." The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously ; rather, perhaps, the robber robs (Knobel); or, the violent man uses violence (Rosenmüller). The idea of faithlessness passes out of the Hebrew boged occasionally, and is unsuitable here, more especially if it is the army of Cyrus that is intended. Go up, O Elam . The discovery that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:2

Nations working out God's providences. The reference of this " burden " is to Babylon, which was the successor to Assyria in executing the Divine judgments on the Jews. Babylonia is called "the desert of the sea," as a poetical figure, suggested by the fact that its surging masses of people were like a sea-desert; or because it was a flat country, and full of lakes, like little seas. It was abundantly watered by the many streams of the river Euphrates. The prophet, writing when Babylon... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:3

Therefore are my loins filled with pain , etc. (comp. above, Isaiah 15:5 ; Isaiah 16:9-11 ). The prophet is horrorstruck at the vision shown him—at the devastation, the ruin, the carnage ( Isaiah 13:18 ). He does not stop to consider how well deserved the punishment is; he does not, perhaps, as yet know how that, in smiting Babylon, God will be specially avenging the sufferings of his own nation (see the introductory paragraph). I was bowed down at the hearing , etc.; rather, I am... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 21:3

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