Isaiah 13:1
This is the message Isaiah, son of Amoz, received about Babylon.
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In The King James Version
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
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Cross References
Isaiah 13:19Babylon, the most marvelous city of any kingdom, the greatest pride of the Babylonian people, will be demolished by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 14:28The following message came in the year King Ahaz died.
Isaiah 17:1A message about Damascus. Look, Damascus will cease to exist as a city. Instead it will become a pile of ruins.
Isaiah 21:1A message about the desert by the sea. Like storm winds passing through the Negev, something is coming from the desert, from a land of terror—
Isaiah 22:1A message about the Valley of Vision (Jerusalem). What's happening? Why has everyone gone up onto the rooftops?
Isaiah 43:14This is what the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: For your sake I will send attackers against Babylon and bring them down. All the Babylonians will be like fugitives, escaping in the ships they're so proud of.
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 →