Isaiah 13:1
The Vision which Esaias son of Amos saw against Babylon.
Brenton Septuagint
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, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha.
Isaiah 14:28In the year in which king Achaz died this word came.
Isaiah 17:1The Word against Damascus. Behold, Damascus shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin;
Isaiah 21:1The Vision of the Desert. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, even from such a land,
Isaiah 22:1The Word of the Valley of Sion. What has happened to thee, that now ye are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?
Isaiah 43:14Thus saith the Lord God that redeems you, the Holy One of Israel; For your sakes I will send to Babylon, and I will stir up all that flee, and the Chaldeans shall be bound in 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 →