Isaiah 21:9

Here comes a chariot with a man and a pair of horsemen. 1 He calls out, “Babylon has fallen, fallen, 1 and all the carved figures of its gods are broken to the ground.” 1

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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

8The watchman cries out, + 21:8 Instead of The watchman cries out , some older versions have A lion cries out . 1 “Lord, on the watchtower I stand all day, every day, 1 and at my post I stand all night long.” 1

10My threshed and winnowed ones, children of my threshing floor! 1 What I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, 1 the God of Israel, I have declared to you. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 14:4you will sing this taunt song against the king of Babylon, 1 “How the oppressor has come to an end, the proud fury ended! + 14:4 Instead of the proud fury ended , some versions have the golden city ended , the turmoil ended , the hostility ended , or the arrogance ended . 1

Jeremiah 50:2“Report to the nations and cause them to listen. Lift up a signal and cause them to listen. Do not conceal it. 1 Say, 'Babylon is taken. Bel is made ashamed. Marduk is dismayed. Its idols are put to shame; its images are dismayed.' 1

Jeremiah 50:29“Summon the archers against Babylon—all those who bend their bows. 1 Camp against her, and let no one escape. 1 Repay her for what she has done. 1 Do to her by the measure she has used. 1 For she had defied Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel. 1

Jeremiah 50:42They will pick up bows and spears. They are cruel and have no compassion. 1 Their sound is like the sea roar, 1 and they are riding on horses, 1 set out in order as men for battle, against you, 1 daughter of Babylon. 1

Jeremiah 51:27Lift up a banner over the earth. Blow the trumpet over the nations. Call the nations to attack her: 1 Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. 1 Appoint a commander to attack her; bring up horses like swarming locusts. 1

Jeremiah 51:47Therefore, see, days are coming when I will punish the carved idols of Babylon. 1 All of her land will be ashamed, and all of her slaughtered ones will fall in her midst. 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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