Isaiah 13:1
The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 14:28In the year of the death of King Ahaz this word came to the prophet:
Isaiah 17:1The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place.
Isaiah 21:1The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared.
Isaiah 22:1The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?
Isaiah 43:14The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 13:1
Hitherto the prophecies of this book related only to Judah and Israel, and Jerusalem especially; but now the prophet begins to look abroad, and to read the doom of divers of the neighbouring states and kingdoms: for he that is King of saints is also King of nations, and rules in the affairs of the children of men as well as in those of his own children. But the nations to whom these prophecies do relate were all such as the people of God were in some way or other conversant and concerned with, such as had been… Read the whole commentary →