Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 21:1

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1. desert —the champaign between Babylon and Persia; it was once a desert, and it was to become so again. of the sea —The plain was covered with the water of the Euphrates like a "sea" ( Jeremiah 51:13 ; Jeremiah 51:36 ; so Isaiah 11:15 , the Nile), until Semiramis raised great dams against it. Cyrus removed these dykes, and so converted the whole country again into a vast desert marsh. whirlwinds in the south — ( Job 37:9 ; Zechariah 9:14 ). The south wind comes upon Babylon from the deserts of Arabia, and its violence is the greater from its course being unbroken along the plain ( Job 1:19 ). desert —the plain between Babylon and Persia. terrible land —Media; to guard against which was the object of Nitocris' great works [HERODOTUS, 1.185]. Compare as to "terrible" applied to a wilderness, as being full of unknown dangers, Deuteronomy 1:29 . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"

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