Isaiah 21:3 - Exposition

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 so agonized that I cannot hear ; I am so terrified that I cannot see .