Isaiah 21:1 (KJV)

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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

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The burden.The first ten verses of this chapter contain a prediction of the taking of Babylon by the Medes and Persians; which is here denominated "the desert of the sea," because the country around it, and especially towards the sea, was a great morass, often overflowed by the Tigris and Euphrates, and only rendered habitable by being drained by a number of canals. Isa 13:1 Isa 17:1

the desert. Isa 13:20-22 Isa 14:23 Jer 51:42

As whirlwinds. Job 37:9 Da 11:40 Zec 9:14

from. Isa 13:4 Isa 13:5 Isa 13:17 Isa 13:18 Eze 30:11 Eze 31:12

13 The set time of Arabia's calamity.

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