Isaiah 21:9

Now, I saw a man riding in a chariot pulled by two horses. I called out to him, and he answered/shouted, ‘Babylon has been destroyed! All the idols in Babylon lie in pieces on the ground!’”

Translation for Translators

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

8So I did that, and one day the watchman called out, “Day after day I have stood on this watchtower, and I have continued to watch during the day and during the night.

10My people in Judah, the army of Babylon has caused you to suffer greatly as though [MET] you were grain that was threshed and ◄winnowed/thrown up into the air for the wind to blow away the chaff►. But now I have told you what the Commander of the armies of angels the God whom we Israelis worship, told me about Babylon.

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Cross References

Isaiah 14:4When that happens, you will make fun of the King of Babylon by saying this: “You treated us cruelly, but that has ended! Your insolently causing others to suffer is finished!

Jeremiah 50:2This is what Yahweh says: “Proclaim [DOU] a message among the nations; do not withhold any of it; raise up a signal flag to announce that Babylon will be captured. Its chief god Marduk, whose other name is Bel, will be completely disgraced, and all the other statues and idols will be shattered.

Jeremiah 50:29Summon archers [DOU] to come to attack Babylon; surround the city in order that no one will escape. Do to the people of Babylon what they have done to others [DOU], because they have defied me, the Holy One of the Israeli people.

Jeremiah 50:42Their army has bows and arrows and spears; they are very cruel, and do not act mercifully to anyone. As they ride along on their horses, the sound of the horses’ hooves is like [SIM] the roaring of the ocean waves; they are riding in battle formation to attack you, you people of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:27Tell the nations to lift up a battle flag! Tell them to shout the battle-cry! Gather all their armies to fight against Babylon! Prepare the nations to attack Babylon. Summon the armies of the kingdoms north of Babylonia—from Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander for them, and bring a great number of horses; there must be a huge number of horses; that huge number will resemble [SIM] a swarm of locusts.

Jeremiah 51:47But it will soon be the time for me to get rid of the idols in Babylon. People all over the land will be ashamed because of being defeated; and the corpses of their soldiers will lie in the streets.

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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