Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared unto me; 1 The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. 1 Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; 1 All the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 1
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Genesis 10:22The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
Psalms 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, 1 Now will I arise, saith the Lord; 1 I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. 1
Psalms 79:11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee, 1 According to the greatness of thy power: 1 Preserve thou those that are appointed to die; 1
Proverbs 13:15Good understanding giveth favour: 1 But the way of transgressors is hard. 1
Isaiah 13:2Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, 1 Exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, 1 That they may go into the gates of the nobles. 1
Isaiah 14:1For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, 1 And will yet choose Israel, 1 And set them in their own land: 1 And the strangers shall be joined with them, 1 And they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 1
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 →