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Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 21:1-10

III. LIBELLUS EMBLEMATICUS: CONTAINING PROPHECIES AGAINST BABYLON, EDOM, ARABIA AND JERUSALEM. TO THIS LAST PROPHECY THERE IS ADDED A SUPPLEMENTAL ONE DIRECTED AGAINST SHEBNA THE STEWARD OF THE PALACEIsaiah 21, 22These two chapters contain prophecies against Babylon, Edom, the Arabians, Jerusalem. The last of them has an appendix relating to an individual, namely, Shebna, the steward of the palace. The reason of the juxtaposition of these prophecies is seen in their peculiar inscriptions, which... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

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 21:5

Prepare the table; furnish it with meats and drinks, as it follows. The prophet foretells what the Babylonians would be doing when their’ enemies were at their doors, that they would give up themselves to feasting and security. Watch in the watch-tower, to give us notice of any approaching danger, that in the mean time we may more securely indulge ourselves in mirth and pleasures. Arise, ye princes; either, 1. Ye Medes and Persians; whilst your enemies the Babylonians are feasting securely,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 21:6

Thus hath the Lord said unto me; I speak not my own fancies, but what God hath made me to see and hear in a vision; the particulars whereof are related in the following verses. A watchman; either, 1. A prophet; such being oft so called, as Ezekiel 3:17; Ezekiel 33:2. Or rather, 2. A military watchman. For this was now done only in a vision, which yet did foresignify what should be done really afterwards. Let him declare, to thee in vision, to them really. 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