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
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