Isaiah 21:2
a horrifying vision that has been explained to me. The betrayer still betrays; the destroyer still destroys. Elamites and Medes, go ahead, attack and lay siege to Babylon, for I'm putting a stop to all the pain it has caused.
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Genesis 10:22The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Psalms 12:5“Because of the violence the helpless have suffered, and because of the groans of the poor, I will rise up to defend them,” says the Lord. “I will give them the protection they have been longing for.”
Psalms 79:11Listen to the groans of the prisoners; with your great power save those condemned to die.
Proverbs 13:15Good sense earns appreciation, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
Isaiah 13:2Set up a banner on a bare hilltop; shout out to them; wave your hand to encourage them to enter the palaces of princes.
Isaiah 14:1But the Lord will be merciful to the descendants of Jacob. Once again he will choose Israel and he will bring them back to live once more in their own land. Foreigners will come and join them there, and they will unite with the descendants of Jacob.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 21:2-11
The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 714.) 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was… Read the whole commentary →