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Isaiah 21

Is. 21:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The burden
massa' (Hebrew #4853)
a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire
KJV usage: burden, carry away, prophecy, X they set, song, tribute.
Pronounce: mas-saw'
Origin: from 5375
of the desert
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
of the sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
. As whirlwinds
cuwphah (Hebrew #5492)
a hurricane
KJV usage: Red Sea, storm, tempest, whirlwind, Red sea.
Pronounce: soo-faw'
Origin: from 5486
d in the south
negeb (Hebrew #5045)
the south (from its drought); specifically, the Negeb or southern district of Judah, occasionally, Egypt (as south to Palestine)
KJV usage: south (country, side, -ward).
Pronounce: neh'-gheb
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be parched
pass
chalaph (Hebrew #2498)
properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change
KJV usage: abolish, alter, change, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, pass (away, on, through), renew, sprout, strike through.
Pronounce: khaw-laf'
Origin: a primitive root
through; so it cometh
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
from the desert
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
, from a terrible
yare' (Hebrew #3372)
to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
KJV usage: affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), X see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).
Pronounce: yaw-ray'
Origin: a primitive root
land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Zac. 9:14• 14Y Jehová será visto sobre ellos, y su dardo saldrá como relámpago: y el Señor Jehová tocará trompeta, é irá como torbellinos del austro. (Zac. 9:14)

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Burden,
Desert,
Sea,
South,
Whirlwind

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-10:  The prophet, bewailing the captivity of his people, sees in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians.
11-12:  Edom, scorning the prophet, is moved to repentance.
13-17:  The set time of Arabia's calamity.
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.
Is. 13:1• 1Carga de Babilonia, que vió Isaías, hijo de Amoz. (Is. 13:1)
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Is. 17:1• 1Carga de Damasco. (Is. 17:1)
the desert.
Is. 13:20‑22• 20Nunca más será habitada, ni se morará en ella de generación en generación; ni hincará allí tienda el Arabe, ni pastores tendrán allí majada:
 21Sino que dormirán allí bestias fieras, y sus casas se llenarán de hurones, allí habitarán hijas del buho, y allí saltarán peludos.
 22Y en sus palacios gritarán gatos cervales, y chacales en sus casas de deleite: y abocado está á venir su tiempo, y sus días no se alargarán. (Is. 13:20‑22)
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Is. 14:23• 23Y convertiréla en posesión de erizos, y en lagunas de agua; y la barreré con escobas de destrucción, dice Jehová de los ejércitos. (Is. 14:23)
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Jer. 51:42• 42Subió la mar sobre Babilonia; de la multitud de sus ondas fué cubierta. (Jer. 51:42)
As whirlwinds.
Job 37:9• 9Del mediodía viene el torbellino, Y el frío de los vientos del norte. (Job 37:9)
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Dn. 11:40• 40Empero al cabo del tiempo el rey del mediodía se acorneará con él; y el rey del norte levantará contra él como tempestad, con carros y gente de á caballo, y muchos navíos; y entrará por las tierras, é inundará, y pasará. (Dn. 11:40)
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Zac. 9:14• 14Y Jehová será visto sobre ellos, y su dardo saldrá como relámpago: y el Señor Jehová tocará trompeta, é irá como torbellinos del austro. (Zac. 9:14)
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Is. 13:4‑5,17‑18• 4Murmullo de multitud en los montes, como de mucho pueblo; murmullo de ruido de reinos, de gentes reunidas: Jehová de los ejércitos ordena las tropas de la batalla.
 5Vienen de lejana tierra, de lo postrero de los cielos, Jehová y los instrumentos de su furor, para destruir toda la tierra.
 17He aquí que yo despierto contra ellos á los Medos, que no curarán de la plata, ni codiciarán oro.
 18Y con arcos tirarán á los niños, y no tendrán misericordia de fruto de vientre, ni su ojo perdonará á hijos. (Is. 13:4‑5,17‑18)
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Ez. 30:11• 11El, y con él su pueblo, los más fuertes de las gentes, serán traídos á destruir la tierra: y desenvainarán sus espadas sobre Egipto, y henchirán la tierra de muertos. (Ez. 30:11)
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Ez. 31:12• 12Y le cortarán extraños, los fuertes de las gentes, y lo abandonarán: sus ramas caerán sobre los montes y por todos los valles, y por todas las arroyadas de la tierra serán quebrados sus ramos; é iránse de su sombra todos los pueblos de la tierra, y lo dejarán. (Ez. 31:12)
• In chapter 21 we return to the doom of Babylon. It is to be “the desert of the sea.” In Jeremiah’s prophecy against the city he says, “The sea is come up upon Babylon” (51:42), which helps to explain the expression. Babylon would be swamped by the sea of nations and become a desert. (“Isaiah 21” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The burden of the desert of the seac. As whirlwinds in the southd pass through, so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

JND Translation Notes

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i.e. Babylon.
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Negeb. see Gen. 12.9.