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Isaiah 21:1

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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. Isaiah 13:1, Isaiah 17:1

the desert: Isaiah 13:20-22, Isaiah 14:23; Jeremiah 51:42

As whirlwinds: Job 37:9; Daniel 11:40; Zechariah 9:14

from: Isaiah 13:4-5, Isaiah 13:17-18; Ezekiel 30:11, Ezekiel 31:12

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