Isaiah 13:1
The burden of Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 13:19And then Babylon, the glorious one among kingdoms, that famous pride of the Chaldeans, will be destroyed, even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 14:28In the year in which king Ahaz died, this burden was given:
Isaiah 17:1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and it will be like a heap of stones in ruin.
Isaiah 21:1The burden of the desert of the sea. Just as the whirlwinds approach from Africa, it approaches from the desert, from a terrible land.
Isaiah 22:1The burden of the valley of vision. What does it mean to you, then, that each of you have even climbed to the rooftops?
Isaiah 43:14Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake, I sent to Babylon, and tore down all their bars, with the Chaldeans who glory in their 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 →