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Isa_13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
Ver. 1. The burden.] That is, the burdenous prophecy. It should not have seemed a burden, {Jer_23:36} but it is a grievous burden to graceless persons to be told of their sins, and foretold of their punishments. {See Trapp on "Nah_1:1"} {See Trapp on "Mal_1:1"}
Of Babylon.] Not that Babylon in Egypt (of which 1Pe_5:13, as some hold), now called Grand Cairo, the sultan’s seat royal, but the metropolis of Chaldea, built by Semiramis about a hundred years after the flood, whither the Jews were to be carried captive, and concerning which calamity they are here aforehand comforted. See Mic_7:8; Mic_7:16.