Three burdens fill this chapter. The first, "the wilderness of the sea," comes like whirlwinds from the South: Elam and Media are summoned to besiege, and the vision so grieves the prophet that pangs seize him like a woman in travail while the doomed city feasts ("they prepare the table... they eat, they drink." A watchman is posted, sees horsemen in pairs, and cries the verdict: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken"), wording Revelation 14:8 and 18:2 take up for end-time Babylon. The burden of Dumah follows, a voice from Seir asking "Watchman, what of the night?" and receiving morning and night together. The burden upon Arabia closes it: Dedanite caravans hide, Tema brings bread to fugitives, and within a year Kedar's glory fails.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview

A. 1–10 The Wilderness of the Sea: Babylon Is Fallen
B. 11–12 Watchman, What of the Night?
C. 13–17 The Burden Upon Arabia: Kedar's Glory Fails

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Jeremiah 516 verses
- Jeremiah 51:8Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
- Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
- Jeremiah 51:33For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
- Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 51:42The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
- Jeremiah 51:57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
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Isaiah 133 verses
- Isaiah 13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
- Isaiah 13:8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
- Isaiah 13:14And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
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Genesis 253 verses
- Genesis 25:3And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
- Genesis 25:14And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
- Genesis 25:15Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
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Jeremiah 492 verses
- Jeremiah 49:19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
- Jeremiah 49:34The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
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Jeremiah 252 verses
- Jeremiah 25:23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
- Jeremiah 25:38He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
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Habakkuk 21 verse
- Habakkuk 2:1I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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Job 61 verse
- Job 6:19The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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Isaiah 141 verse
- Isaiah 14:23I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
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