George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 13:20
Tents. To dwell, (Calmet) or to traffic. (Theodoret) --- Another city was built, but not so large, nor in the same place. (Worthington)
Tents. To dwell, (Calmet) or to traffic. (Theodoret) --- Another city was built, but not so large, nor in the same place. (Worthington)
IT SHALL NEVER BE INHABITED - This has been completely fulfilled. It is now, and has been for centuries, a scene of wide desolation, and is a heap of ruins, and there is every indication that it will...
2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...
NEVER. See note on Isaiah 25:8....
Babylon, after its overthrow, shall be a perpetual desolation....
_the Arabian_ Cf. Jeremiah 3:2. The word seems originally to mean "dweller in the desert," but ultimately acquired the force of a proper name (see Jeremiah 25:24; 2 Chronicles 9:14, &c.). The site of...
AND BABYLON, THE GLORY— The prophet in this eloquent passage describes to us the consequence of the fury of the enemy raised up by God against Babylon; namely, the devastation and desolation of Babylo...
c. PROLONGATION OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:17-22 17 Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it, 18 And their bows sh...
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. IT SHALL NEV...
1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...
MAKE THEIR FOLD] RV 'make their flocks to lie down.' A more terrible desolation awaits Babylon than that which had been foretold for Judah (Isaiah 7:21; Isaiah 7:25)....
Today what remains of Babylon’s beautiful buildings and impressive avenues lies underneath many feet of sand. WOE ~ a very sad cry because there is much pain to come. LORD ~ God’s name in the Bible. I...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 13 The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
NEITHER SHALL THE ARABIAN PITCH TENT THERE... — The word “Arabian” is used in its widest extent, as including all the nomadic tribes of the Bedouin type east and north of Palestine as far as Babylon ...
לֹֽא ־תֵשֵׁ֣ב לָ נֶ֔צַח וְ לֹ֥א תִשְׁכֹּ֖ן
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the (o) Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. (o) Who use...
I pray the Reader to read this prophecy very attentively, and mark well the awful destruction threatened. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed in a day; and Babylon in a night. In the same moment when Be...
20._It shall never be inhabited any more. _By the verb תשב, (_thesheb_,) _shall sit_, he means continuance; as if he had said, “There is no hope of restoring Babylon.” All these forms of expression ha...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
IT SHALL NEVER BE INHABITED,.... As it has not been since its utter destruction. Pausanias p, who lived in the times of Adrian, says, Babylon, the greatest city that ever the sun saw, that then there...
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. Ver. 20. _Neith...
Isa. 13:20-22. "It shall never be inhabited. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance ther...
_It shall never be inhabited_ After the destruction threatened shall be fully effected. This was not done immediately upon the taking of the city by Darius the Mede and Cyrus the Persian, his nephew;...
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabians, the Bedouin nomads, PITCH TENT THERE; NEITHER SHALL THE SHEPHERDS MAKE THEIR FOLD T...
AGAINST BABYLON IN PARTICULAR...
19-22 Babylon was a noble city; yet it should be wholly destroyed. None shall dwell there. It shall be a haunt for wild beasts. All this is fulfilled. The fate of this proud city is a proof of the tr...
IT SHALL NEVER BE INHABITED, after the destruction threatened shall be fully accomplished. NEITHER SHALL THE ARABIAN, who dwelt in tents, and wandered from place, where they could find pasture; but sh...
Isaiah 13:20 never H5331 inhabited H3427 (H8799) settled H7931 (H8799) generation H1755 generation H1755 Arabian H6163
A VIVID PICTURE OF BABYLON'S FUTURE AND ITS END (ISAIAH 13:17). Having depicted the destruction of Babylon in apocalyptic terms Isaiah brings it down to earth. He partly does it in terms of the Medes....
CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The b...
_Babylon. .. shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah_ THE RE-ENTRIES OF NATURE All this we may say is historical and local. On the other hand, all this is moral and suggestive. This proces...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:20 IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED. This eerie scene contrasts with the magnificence of v. Isaiah 13:19 and the messianic paradise of...
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
Isaiah 14:23; Isaiah 51:25; Isaiah 51:29; Isaiah 51:43; Isaiah 51:62
Inhabited — After the destruction threatened shall be fully accomplished. Arabian — Who dwelt in tents, and wandered from place to place, where they could find pasture....