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Isaiah 21:2 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 21 · verse 2
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.Isaiah 21:2 · King James Version
Isaiah 21:2 in context
1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- grievousqâshehsevereH7186 →
- declarednâgadproperly, to frontH5046 →
- spoilershâdadproperly, to be burlyH7703 →
- besiegetsûwrto crampH6696 →
- sighingʼănâchâhsighingH585 →
- visionchâzûwtha lookH2380 →
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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