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Isaiah
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The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land. See also: Isaiah 14:23Isaiah 13:1Jeremiah 51:42A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing. See also: Jeremiah 49:34Isaiah 33:1Psalms 60:3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see. See also: Isaiah 13:8Psalms 48:6Isaiah 26:17My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. See also: Luke 21:34-36Esther 7:6-10Daniel 5:1They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! See also: Jeremiah 51:39Jeremiah 51:57Jeremiah 51:11For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. See also: Habakkuk 2:1-2Ezekiel 33:2-7Ezekiel 3:17When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.” See also: Isaiah 21:9Hebrews 2:1Isaiah 37:24He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. See also: Habakkuk 2:1-2Jeremiah 49:19Psalms 63:6Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground. See also: Revelation 18:2Revelation 14:8Jeremiah 51:8You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you. See also: Jeremiah 51:33Micah 4:13Ezekiel 3:17-19The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?” See also: Genesis 25:14Obadiah 1:1-16Amos 1:6The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.” See also: Acts 17:30-32Acts 2:37-38Isaiah 55:7The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites. See also: Jeremiah 25:23-24Ezekiel 27:151 Chronicles 1:32They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. See also: Romans 12:20Job 6:19Genesis 25:15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. See also: Job 6:19-20Isaiah 13:14For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail, See also: Song of Songs 1:5Isaiah 60:7Psalms 120:5and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.” See also: Numbers 23:19Zechariah 1:6Isaiah 1:20
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes
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 21:1
Ver. 1. The desert of the sea. So Babylon is here called, because from a city as full of people as the sea is with water, it was become a desert. Ch. --- After its fall, it was mostly inundated. C.
xiii. 20. --- Land. Media and Persia, which lay to the south, and were not so beautiful as the environs of Babylon.
↑ 1Isaiah 21:2
Ver. 2. Spoileth. Baltassar is incorrigible, or his opponents must proceed. C. ---
Elam; that is, O
Persia: (Ch.) Cyrus, and Darius, the Mede. C. --- The former nation was weak, and the latter strong. W. --- Cease. The enemy will shew no pity; nor shall I; as Babylon did not heretofore.
H.
↑ 2Isaiah 21:3
Ver. 3. Pain. He bewails the crimes and the fall of Babylon, which at this time was in amity with Ezechias. v. 10. C.
↑ 3Isaiah 21:4
Ver. 4. Babylon. Prot. "the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me." Sept. "My soul is turned into fear." H.
↑ 4Isaiah 21:5
Ver. 5. Drink. Persians refresh yourselves. --- Take up. Heb. "anoint." He may also allude to the Babylonians, who were feasting.
↑ 5Isaiah 21:7
Ver. 7. Camel. These two riders are the kings of the Persians and Medes. Ch. ---
The sentinel, placed by Isaias, in spirit, or rather by the king of Babylon, brings these tidings. C.
↑ 7Isaiah 21:8
Ver. 8. Out. Lit. "He cried, a lion." H. --- Cyrus appears like one. Sept. "And call Urias to the watch-tower," &c. C. viii. 2.
↑ 8Isaiah 21:9
Ver. 9. Horsemen, drawn by the ass and camel. v. 7. This was verified long after.
↑ 9Isaiah 21:10
Ver. 10. Floor: you who must shortly be reduced to the utmost distress.
Baladan was friendly to Ezechias. But Assaradon having seized Babylon, took Manasses prisoner; and the city thenceforward continued to fill up the measure of its sins. C.
↑ 10Isaiah 21:11
Ver. 11. Duma. That is, Idumea, or Edom. Ch. --- It was a city of that country, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis. S. Jer. --- Assaradon desolated Idumea the following year. v. 16. The Jews absurdly apply to Rome what is said of Edom.
S. Jer. C.
↑ 11Isaiah 21:12
Ver. 12. Night. Instead of joy, I must announce dreadful things. H.
↑ 12Isaiah 21:13
Ver. 13. Arabia. This sentence is not in the Rom. (C.) or Alex. Sept. (H.) and Dedan is a city of Idumea. C. --- The Israelites are threatened. W.
↑ 13Isaiah 21:14
Ver. 14. Water. To neglect this was to be accessary to another's death, in those dreary regions. C.
xvi. 3. Deut. xxiii. 2.
↑ 14Isaiah 21:16
Ver. 16. Hireling; counting precisely. C. xvi. 14. C. --- Cedar: Arabia, (Ch.) near to Edom. C.
↑ 16License: 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