Isa 21:1-6 - Commentary

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Text -- Isaiah 21:1-6 (NET)

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The Lord Will Judge Babylon

21:1 Here is a message about the Desert by the Sea: Like strong winds blowing in the south, one invades from the desert, from a land that is feared. 21:2 I have received a distressing message: “The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!” 21:3 For this reason reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see. 21:4 My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror. 21:5 Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields! 21:6 For this is what the sovereign master has told me: “Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.

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Names, People and Places:

· Elam son of Shem son of Noah,a country east of the Tigris and Babylon in the territory of Media,son of Shashak of Benjamin,son of Meshelemiah; a Levite gatekeeper,a man whose descendants returned from exile in Babylon; Elam I,forefather of exile returnees with Zerubbabel; Elam II,forefather of returnees headed by Jeshaiah,forefather of Shecaniah who had to put away his heathen wife,an Israelite chief who signed the covenant to obey God's law,a priest who helped Nehemiah dedicate the new wall of Jerusalem

· Media a country on the SW coast of the Caspian Sea

· Negeb geographical region: South country

· sea the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan River,the Mediterranean Sea,the Persian Gulf south east of Babylon,the Red Sea

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NET Notes: Isa 21:1 Or “in the Negev” (NASB).

NET Notes: Isa 21:2 This is often interpreted to mean “all the groaning” that Babylon has caused others.

NET Notes: Isa 21:3 Or perhaps, “bent over [in pain]”; cf. NRSV “I am bowed down.”

NET Notes: Isa 21:4 Heb “shuddering terrifies me.”

NET Notes: Isa 21:5 Smearing the shields with oil would make them more flexible and effective in battle. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:394.

NET Notes: Isa 21:6 The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 8, 16 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

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