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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Isaiah 13:21

Wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; the land being forsaken by men, shall be possessed by wild beasts, which love solitary places. What the Hebrew words used here, and in the next verse, signify, the learned may see in my Latin Synopsis; and for others, it may suffice to know that in which all the learned agree, that these are frightful and solitary creatures; of which if I should particularly discourse, I should rather perplex than edify the vulgar reader.

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See also Isaiah 13:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 13:21. _SATYRS_] A kind of beast like to man, which is called מרמוטש _marmots, a monkey_. - _Rabbi Parchon_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT SHALL LIE THERE - Hebrew, (ציים _tsı̂yı̂ym_). This word denotes properly those animals that dwell in dry and desolate places, from צי _tsı̂y_ “a waste, a desert.” The anc...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DOLEFUL CREATURES. Probably hyenas. SATYRS. goat-shaped demons worshipped by the Seirites (Edom). Compare Leviticus 17:7. 2Ch 11:15. 2 Chronicles 25:14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Babylon, after its overthrow, shall be a perpetual desolation....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _wild beasts of the desert_ The word used means strictly "dwellers in the desert" and is applied to men in Psalms 72:9. In ch. Isaiah 34:14 it seems to denote a particular kind of desert creature. _do...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    It shall be haunted by wild beasts and creatures of demon kind, like the _jinn_of the Arabs. See ch. Isaiah 34:11-15; Zephaniah 2:14 f.; Jeremiah 50:39;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 there. WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT - Hebrew, tsi...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    13:21 goats (f-24) See Leviticus 17:7 and Note....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DOLEFUL CREATURES] probably owls. OWLS] RV 'ostriches.' SATYRS] i.e. uncanny creatures, or demons (so Targum, LXX, and Syr.), such as were thought by the Jews to haunt ruins and desert places: cp. Luk...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 ...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT... — The Hebrew term, which in Psalms 72:9, and perhaps in Isaiah 23:13, is used of men, has been rendered by “wild cats,” but is probably generic, _the ferœ naturœ_ that hau...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ רָבְצוּ ־שָׁ֣ם צִיִּ֔ים וּ מָלְא֥וּ בָתֵּי

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But (p) 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 there. (p) Who were either wild beasts or fo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Beasts. Hebrew tsiim, "fishermen." --- Serpents. Hebrew ochim. Septuagint, "echo," (Haydock) or "reeds." Babylon was built on a marshy situation, and Cyrus having let out the waters of the Euphrates,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    21._But the Ziim shall lie there. _(209) He continues the description of a desert place, and alludes to what he had formerly said, that Babylon will be destitute of inhabitants. In what way ציים (_tzi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT SHALL LIE THERE,.... What sort of creatures are meant is not certain. The Targum renders it by a word which signifies monstrous, astonishing creatures; the Latin interpre...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 there. Ver. 21. _But wild beasts of the desert._...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The _wild beasts of the desert shall lie there_ Which was literally fulfilled, as we have just seen, in Jerome's time, when it was a forest for breeding wild beasts, or a royal chase for hunting. _And...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST BABYLON IN PARTICULAR...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, making their dens in the midst of the ruins; AND THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE FULL OF DOLEFUL CREATURES, the howling jackals probably being meant; AND OWLS SHAL...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WILD BEASTS: _ Heb._ ziim DOLEFULL CREATURES: _ Heb._ Ochim OWELS: Or, ostriches [SYMBOL MISSING HERE IN 1611 EDITION] _HEB._DAUGHTERS OF THE OWLE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 13:21 desert H6728 lie H7257 (H8804) houses H1004 full H4390 (H8804) owls H255 Ostriches H1323...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 34:11; Revelation 18:2...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Satyrs — The learned agree, that these are frightful and solitary creatures....

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