Isaiah 21:2

A chazut kashah (harsh vision) is declared unto me; 1 the boged (traitor) dealeth treacherously, and the shoded (destroyer) destroyeth. 1 Go up, O Eilam; besiege, O Media; 1 all the groaning she + 21:2 Babylon caused have I made to cease. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1The massa (burden) concerning the Midbar Yam (desert by the sea): 1 As sufot (whirlwinds) in the Negev sweep through; 1 so it cometh from the midbar, from eretz nora'ah. 1

3Therefore are my loins filled with pain; 1 tzirim (pangs) have taken hold upon me, 1 as the tzirim (pangs) of a woman in labor; 1 I was bowed down at the hearing of it; 1 I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 10:22The Bnei Shem: Eilam, and Ashur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

Psalms 12:5Who have said, With leshoneinu (our tongue) will we prevail; 1 our lips are our own: who is Adon over us? 1

Psalms 79:11Let the groaning of the asir (prisoner) come before Thee; 1 according to the greatness of Thy Zero'a 1 preserve Thou those that are Bnei Temutah (sons of death); + 79:11 i.e., appointed to die, doomed to die 1

Proverbs 13:15Seichel tov giveth favor, 1 but the derech bogedim (way of traitors) is hard. 1

Isaiah 13:2Lift ye up a nes upon the high mountain, 1 exalt the voice unto them, 1 shake the yad, 1 that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 1

Isaiah 14:1For Hashem will have compassion on Ya'akov, and will yet choose Yisroel, and set them in their own adamah (land); and the ger (alien) shall be joined with them, and they shall unite themselves to the Bais Ya'akov.

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 →

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