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The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. See also: Isaiah 47:1-15Jeremiah 50:1Isaiah 1:1Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. See also: Isaiah 5:26Jeremiah 51:58Jeremiah 50:2I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. See also: Joel 3:11Revelation 17:12-18Jeremiah 51:20-24The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! The LORD of Armies is mustering the army for the battle. See also: Joel 3:14Revelation 19:11-21Joel 2:25They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. See also: Jeremiah 50:9Jeremiah 51:20-46Matthew 24:31Wail, for the LORD’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. See also: Joel 1:15Amos 5:18Isaiah 13:9Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt. See also: Ezekiel 21:7Isaiah 19:1Nahum 1:6They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame. See also: Nahum 2:10Isaiah 26:171 Thessalonians 5:3Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it. See also: Nahum 1:6Malachi 4:1Isaiah 13:15-18For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. See also: Joel 2:31Matthew 24:29Ezekiel 32:7-8I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible. See also: Isaiah 2:11Isaiah 5:15Daniel 5:22-23I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir. See also: Isaiah 4:1Isaiah 24:6Psalms 137:9Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the LORD of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger. See also: Hebrews 12:26-27Joel 3:16Matthew 24:29It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land. See also: Jeremiah 50:161 Kings 22:171 Kings 22:36Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. See also: Jeremiah 50:25Isaiah 14:19-22Isaiah 47:9-14Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped. See also: Hosea 10:14Nahum 3:10Isaiah 13:18Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it. See also: Jeremiah 51:11Daniel 5:28-31Isaiah 41:25Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children. See also: 2 Kings 8:122 Chronicles 36:17Ezekiel 9:5-6Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. See also: Daniel 4:30Genesis 19:24Deuteronomy 29:23It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there. See also: Isaiah 14:23Jeremiah 51:432 Chronicles 17:11But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there. See also: Revelation 18:2Isaiah 34:11-15Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged. See also: Isaiah 25:2Jeremiah 51:33Isaiah 35:7
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 13:1
Ver. 1. Burden. That is, a prophecy against Babylon. Ch. --- Nimrod began the kingdom. Gen.
x. Belus and Ninus brought it to great eminence. But after 1240 years, Babylon was taken by Cyrus. W. --- Isaias delivered the seven following chapters in the first year of Ezechias. C. xiv.
28.
↑ 1Isaiah 13:2
Ver. 2. Mountain of Media, whence Darius came. It was usual to erect a signal, (c. xxx. 17. Jer.
vi. 1.) to call troops together. C.
↑ 2Isaiah 13:3
Ver. 3. Sanctioned. The Medes and Persians were appointed by God to punish Babylon. W.
↑ 3Isaiah 13:4
Ver. 4. Kings. Darius styles himself king of the Medes and Persians. Dan. vi. 12.
Many princes and nations composed his army.
↑ 4Isaiah 13:5
Ver. 5. Heaven. Where it seems to touch the horizon. Thus the countries beyond the Euphrates are often designated.
↑ 5Isaiah 13:6
Ver. 6. Near. Though one hundred and seventy-two years distant.
↑ 6Isaiah 13:8
Ver. 8. Burnt. Black with despair. Nah. ii. 10. and Joel ii. 6.
↑ 8Isaiah 13:9
Ver. 9. Desolate. This was effected in the course of many centuries. C. --- The building of Seleucia caused Babylon to be deserted. Pliny vi. 27. --- Hence we know not at present where it was situated.
↑ 9Isaiah 13:10
Ver. 10. Stars. This is not to be taken literally, but only implies that the people shall be in as much consternation (C.) as if the world were at an end. v. 13. H.
Grot. Mat. xxiv. 27. Apoc. vi.
12. Jer. iv. 23.
↑ 10Isaiah 13:11
Ver. 11. World. The vices of all nations were concentrated at Babylon. C.
↑ 11Isaiah 13:12
Ver. 12. Precious. Rare, (W.) or sought after for destruction. v. 17.
↑ 12Isaiah 13:13
Ver. 13. Heaven. With thunders.
↑ 13Isaiah 13:14
Ver. 14. Land. Baltassar shall be abandoned by his allies. Crœsus had been already defeated, before Cyrus invested Babylon.
↑ 14Isaiah 13:17
Ver. 17. Medes. Who had set themselves at liberty about twenty years before this. They were not solicitous about gold. Ezec. vii. 19. Soph. i. 18.
↑ 17Isaiah 13:19
Ver. 19. Gomorrha. Towards the end of the Macedonian empire. C. --- The Persians kept wild beasts in it. S. Jer. --- The palace of Nabuchodonosor subsisted in the days of Benjamin, (C.) but could not be approached on account of serpents. Tudel. p. 70.
↑ 19Isaiah 13:20
Ver. 20. Tents. To dwell, (C.) or to traffic. Theod. --- Another city was built, but not so large, nor in the same place. W.
↑ 20Isaiah 13:21
Ver. 21. Beasts. Heb. tsiim, "fishermen." --- Serpents. Heb. ochim. Sept. "echo,"
(H.) or
"reeds." Babylon was built on a marshy situation, and Cyrus having let out the waters of the Euphrates, they could never be effectually stopped. --- Ostriches.
Or swans. --- Hairy. Goats. C.
xxxiv. 14. C.
↑ 21Isaiah 13:22
Ver. 22. Owls. Or jackals, which resemble foxes, and going in packs, will devour the largest creatures. Bochart. Parkhurst in aje. H. --- But S. Jer.
explains it of birds. Job xxviii. 7. Lev.
xiv. --- Sirens, fabulously supposed to be sweet singing women with wings. ---
Thannim denotes some great sea monsters, such as whales or sea calves. C.
↑ 22License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses