Isaiah 21:9

And, hinei, here cometh a merkavah with a man, 1 a pair of parashim. And he answered and said, 1 Bavel (Babylon) is fallen, is fallen; 1 and all the pesilim (images) of her elohim (g-ds) 1 hath been shattered on the ground. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

In Context

8And the one seeing cried out, 1 Adonoi, I stand continually on the mitzpeh (watchtower) in the daytime, 1 and I am set in my mishmeret (guard duty) kol halailot (every night), 1

10O my threshed, + 21:10 people and the grain of my goren (threshing floor); 1 that which I have heard of Hashem Tzva'os Elohei Yisroel, 1 have I declared unto you.

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Cross References

Isaiah 14:4That thou shalt take up this mashal against Melech Bavel, and say: 1 How hath the nogesh (oppressor) ceased! 1 How hast fury ceased! 1

Jeremiah 50:2Declare ye among the Goyim, and publish, 1 and lift up a nes (banner); 1 publish, and conceal not; 1 say: Bavel is captured, 1 Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; 1 her atzabim (images) are shamed, 1 her gilulim (idols) are dismayed.

Jeremiah 50:29Call together the archers against Bavel; all ye that bend the keshet, encamp against it all around; let none thereof escape; repay her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her; for she hath arrogantly defied Hashem Kadosh Yisroel.

Jeremiah 50:42They shall wield keshet and spear; 1 they are cruel, and shall show no rachamim; 1 their voice shall roar like the yam, 1 and they shall ride upon susim, 1 every one put in array, like an ish for the milchamah, 1 against thee, O Bat Bavel. 1

Jeremiah 51:27Lift ye up a nes (banner) in ha'aretz, 1 blow the shofar among the Goyim, 1 prepare the Goyim against her, 1 call together against her the mamlechot 1 of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; 1 appoint a commander against her; 1 cause the sus to come up like the swarming locusts. 1

Jeremiah 51:47Therefore, hinei, the days are coming 1 when I will visit [in punishment] the pesalim of Bavel; 1 and her whole land shall be shamed, 1 and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. 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 →

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