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Isaiah 21:10 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 21 · verse 10
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.Isaiah 21:10 · King James Version
Isaiah 21:10 in context
8And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- threshingmᵉdushshâha threshingH4098 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- floorgôrena threshing-floorH1637 →
- heardshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- hoststsâbâʼa mass of persons , especially reg. organized forwarH6635 →
- cornbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
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We had one burden of Babylon before (ch. 13); here we have another prediction of its fall. God saw fit thus to possess his people with the belief of this event by line upon line, because Babylon sometimes pretended to be a friend to them (as Isa 39:1), and God would hereby warn them not to trust to that friendship,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-10