Isaiah 13:19

Babylon 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.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

In Context

18With their arrows, the soldiers of Media will shoot the young men of Babylon; they will not even act mercifully [DOU] toward infants or children!”

20No one will ever live in Babylon again. It will be deserted forever. ◄Nomads/People who travel from place to place to live► will refuse to set up their tents there; shepherds will not bring their flocks of sheep to rest there.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:23They will see that all your land has been ruined by burning sulfur and salt. Nothing will have been planted. Not even weeds will grow there. Your land will resemble Sodom and Gomorrah cities, and Admah and Zeboiim cities, which Yahweh destroyed when he was very angry [DOU] with the people who lived there.

Isaiah 14:12You have disappeared from the earth like [MET] a star which has fallen from the sky; you were very well-known like [MET] the morning star which is seen by everyone; you destroyed many nations, but now you have been destroyed.

Jeremiah 50:40I will destroy Babylon like I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns; no one will ever live there again [DOU].

Daniel 2:37You are a king who rules over many other kings. The God who rules in heaven has caused you to rule over them and has given you great power [DOU] and has honored you.

Amos 4:11I got rid of many of you, like I got rid of the people in Sodom and Gomorrah. Those of you who did not die were like [SIM] a burning stick that was snatched from a fire so that it would not burn completely. But in spite of that, you rejected me. That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it!

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 13:7-19

The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy… Read the whole commentary →

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