1; The prophet, bewailing the captivity of his people, sees in
a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians.
11; Edom, scorning the prophet, is moved to repentance.
13; The set time of Arabia's calamity.
* The burden.
The first ten verses of this chapter contain a prediction of
the taking of Babylon by the Medes and Persians; which is here
denominated "the desert of the sea," because the country
around it, and especially towards the sea, was a great morass,
often overflowed by the Tigris and Euphrates, and only
rendered habitable by being drained by a number of canals.
# 13:1; 17:1|
* the desert.
# 13:20-22; 14:23; Jer 51:42|
* As whirlwinds.
# Job 37:9; Da 11:40; Zec 9:14|
* from.
# 13:4,5,17,18; Eze 30:11; 31:12|
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