Isaiah 13:1
This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
BSB
ASV
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
KJV
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
(Chapter XIII—Verse 1) The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah, son of Amos, saw. The Hebrew word 'Messa' can be understood as burden, load, or weight. And wherever it is mentioned, it signifies a heavy message. Hence, I wonder why the Septuagint translators wanted to use the word 'vision' in this sad context; but that is a topic for another time. Now let us proceed with what we have started: Babylon was the capital of the Chaldeans, whose king Nebuchadnezzar conquered all nations as far as Ethiopia.
The burden of Babylon - Or, the burden “respecting,” or “concerning” Babylon. This prophecy is introduced in a different manner from those which have preceded. The terms which Isaiah employed in the commencement of his previous prophecies, were vision (see the note at Isa 1:1), or word Isa 2:1. There has been considerable diversity of opinion in regard to the meaning of the word ‘burden,’ which is here employed. The Vulgate renders it, Onus - ‘Burden,’ in the sense of load.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Daniel 5:28PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
leads to
A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
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Daniel 5:6his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.
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Thus ends the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face turned pale. But I kept the matter to myself.”
She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!
Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.
I had a dream, and it frightened me; while in my bed, the images and visions in my mind alarmed me.
