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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 13:10 - 13:10
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stars, etc. - figuratively for anarchy, distress, and revolutions of kingdoms (Isa 34:4; Joe 2:10; Eze 32:7, Eze 32:8; Amo 8:9; Rev 6:12-14). There may be a literal fulfillment finally, shadowed forth under this imagery (Rev 21:1).
constellations - Hebrew, “a fool,” or “impious one”; applied to the constellation Orion, which was represented as an impious giant (Nimrod deified, the founder of Babylon) chained to the sky. See on Job 38:31.