Isaiah 21:1 — This is a message about a desert beside the sea:
Enemies from a hostile nation… — CEV | maBible
Read Isaiah 21:1 (Contemporary English Version) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Isaiah 21.1, Isaiah 21v1, Es. 21:1. This is a message about a desert beside the sea:
Enemies from a hostile nation
attack like a whirlwind
from the Southern Desert.
Other reference formats: Isaiah 21.1, Isaiah 21v1, Es. 21:1.
1 This is a message about a desert beside the sea:
Enemies from a hostile nation
attack like a whirlwind
from the Southern Desert.
Passage themes
Un message prophétique — Message sur le désert maritime
Babylone réduite au désert — le désert maritime
Pareil à l'ouragan — Pareil à l'ouragan qui progresse dans le Néguev
Venu du pays redoutable — il vient du désert, du pays redoutable
Notes and references
This … sea: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. The prophet may be speaking of Babylonia as a desert, because of the terrible punishment God will bring on it. The southern part of Babylonia on the Persian Gulf was sometimes called “the land beside the sea.”