Isaiah 13:1
I, Isaiah, the son of Amoz, received from Yahweh this message about Babylon city:
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 13:19Babylon has been a very beautiful [MTY] city; all the people of Babylonia have been very proud of Babylon, their capital city; but God will destroy Babylon, like [SIM] he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 14:28I received this message from Yahweh during the year that King Ahaz died:
Isaiah 17:1I received this message from Yahweh about Damascus the capital of Syria: “Listen carefully! Damascus will no longer be a city; it will be only a heap of ruins!
Isaiah 21:1I received this message from Yahweh about Babylonia, a land that is near the Persian Gulf but which will soon be a desert. An army will soon come from the desert to invade that land; it is an army that causes its enemies to be terrified, an army that will come like a whirlwind from the south.
Isaiah 22:1I received this message from Yahweh about Jerusalem, about the valley where Yahweh showed me this vision. Why is everyone foolishly running up to their flat rooftops?
Isaiah 43:14Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, is the one who rescues you; and this is what he says: “For your sake, I will send an army to attack Babylon. They will force the people of that city to flee in ships which they have been 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 →