Isaiah 14:23 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 14:23

“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

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ASV

I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.

KJV

I 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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Commentary

3 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah (1274)

As to it being inhabited by beasts: I will make it a possession for the hedgehog, below: there has the hedgehog had its hole, and brought up its young ones, and has dug round about (Isa 34:15). As to the destruction of its walls: I …

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I will also make it a possession for the bittern - The word ‘bittern,’ in English, means a bird with long legs and neck, that stalks among reeds and sedge, feeding upon fish. The Hebrew word (קפד qı̂ppod), occurs but five times Isa 34:11; Zep 2:14. According to Bochart and Gesenius, it means the hedgehog. It has been variously rendered. Some have supposed it to be a land animal; some an aquatic animal; and most have regarded it as a fowl. Bochart has proved that the hedgehog or porcupine is found on the shores of the Euphrates.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

A FRAGMENT AS TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ASSYRIANS UNDER SENNACHERIB. This would comfort the Jews when captives in Babylon, being a pledge that God, who had by that time fulfilled the promise concerning Sennacherib (though now still future), would also fulfil His promise as to destroying Babylon, Judah's enemy.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְשַׂמְתִּ֛יהָ	ve.sam.Ti.ha	and I will make it	H7760 →
לְמוֹרַ֥שׁ	le.mo.Rash	<into> a possession of	H4180 →
קִפֹּ֖ד	ki.Pod	hedgehog[s]	H7090 →
וְאַגְמֵי־	ve.'ag.mei-	and reed-pools of	H98 →
מָ֑יִם	Ma.yim	water	H4325 →
וְטֵֽאטֵאתִ֙יהָ֙	ve.te.te.Ti.ha	and I will sweep away it	H2894 →
בְּמַטְאֲטֵ֣א	be.mat.'a.Te'	with a broom of	H4292 →
הַשְׁמֵ֔ד	hash.Med	destruction	H8045 →
נְאֻ֖ם	ne.'Um	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהוָ֥ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צְבָאֽוֹת׃ פ	tze.va.'ot	of hosts	H6635 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Revelation 14:8
Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:7–8
  Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
- Isaiah 21:9
  Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
- Revelation 18:2–3
  And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable…
- Revelation 16:19
  The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His…
- Revelation 11:8
  Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.
Through
1 Kings 14:10
Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:36
  For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
- 1 Kings 21:21
  This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.
- 2 Kings 14:26
  For the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,

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