Isaías 13
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1 Profecía sobre Babilonia que vio Isaías, hijo de Amoz. 2 «Levanten un estandarte sobre un monte pelado, alcen la voz hacia ellos y hagan señas con la mano, para que entren por las puertas de los nobles. 3 Yo he dado órdenes a mis consagrados; también he llamado a mis valientes para ejecutar mi ira, a los que se alegran en mi grandeza». 4 ¡Ruido de una multitud en los montes, como de un pueblo numeroso! ¡Estruendo de reinos, de naciones reunidas! Jehová de los ejércitos pasa revista al ejército para la batalla. 5 Vienen de una tierra lejana, del extremo de los cielos: Jehová y los instrumentos de su indignación, para devastar toda la tierra. 6 ¡Giman, porque está cerca el día de Jehová! Vendrá como destrucción del Todopoderoso. 7 Por eso todas las manos desfallecerán y todo corazón humano se derretirá. 8 Se llenarán de terror; dolores y angustias se apoderarán de ellos, se retorcerán como una mujer de parto. Se mirarán unos a otros con asombro; sus rostros serán rostros en llamas. 9 Miren, viene el día de Jehová, cruel, con furia y ardiente ira, para dejar la tierra desolada y exterminar de ella a sus pecadores. 10 Porque las estrellas de los cielos y sus constelaciones no darán su luz; el sol se oscurecerá al salir y la luna no dará su resplandor. 11 «Castigaré al mundo por su maldad y a los malvados por su culpa; pondré fin a la arrogancia de los soberbios y abatiré el orgullo de los tiranos. 12 Haré al mortal más escaso que el oro puro, al ser humano más escaso que el oro de Ofir. 13 Por eso haré temblar los cielos, y la tierra será sacudida de su lugar por la furia de Jehová de los ejércitos, en el día de su ardiente ira». 14 Como una gacela perseguida y como un rebaño que nadie reúne, cada uno volverá a su pueblo y cada uno huirá a su tierra. 15 Todo el que sea hallado será atravesado, y todo el que sea capturado caerá a espada. 16 Sus pequeños serán estrellados ante sus ojos, sus casas serán saqueadas y sus mujeres serán violadas. 17 «Miren, yo incito contra ellos a los medos, que no estiman la plata ni se complacen en el oro. 18 Sus arcos destrozarán a los jóvenes; no tendrán compasión del fruto del vientre ni sus ojos tendrán piedad de los niños». 19 Babilonia, la hermosura de los reinos, el esplendor del orgullo de los caldeos, será como Sodoma y Gomorra cuando Dios las destruyó. 20 Nunca más será habitada ni poblada de generación en generación; ningún árabe plantará allí su tienda, ni los pastores harán descansar allí sus rebaños. 21 Allí se acostarán las fieras del desierto, y sus casas se llenarán de criaturas aullantes; allí habitarán avestruces y allí saltarán las cabras peludas. 22 Las hienas aullarán en sus fortalezas y los chacales en sus palacios de lujo. Su tiempo está por llegar y sus días no se prolongarán.
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Is 13:1-22. The Thirteenth through Twenty-third Chapters Contain Prophecies as to Foreign Nations.--The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Twenty-seventh Chapters as to Babylon and Assyria.
The predictions as to foreign nations are for the sake of the covenant people, to preserve them from despair, or reliance on human confederacies, and to strengthen their faith in God: also in order to extirpate narrow-minded nationality: God is Jehovah to Israel, not for Israel's sake alone, but that He may be thereby Elohim to the nations. These prophecies are in their right chronological place, in the beginning of Hezekiah's reign; then the nations of Western Asia, on the Tigris and Euphrates, first assumed a most menacing aspect.
1. burden--weighty or mournful prophecy [Grotius]. Otherwise, simply, the prophetical declaration, from a Hebrew root to put forth with the voice anything, as in Nu 23:7 [Maurer].
of Babylon--concerning Babylon.
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2. Lift ... banner--(Is 5:26; 11:10).
the high mountain--rather, "a bare (literally, "bald," that is, without trees) mountain"; from it the banner could be seen afar off, so as to rally together the peoples against Babylon.
unto them--unto the Medes (Is 13:17), the assailants of Babylon. It is remarkable that Isaiah does not foretell here the Jews' captivity in Babylon, but presupposes that event, and throws himself beyond, predicting another event still more future, the overthrow of the city of Israel's oppressors. It was now one hundred seventy-four years before the event.
shake ... hand--beckon with the hand--wave the hand to direct the nations to march against Babylon.
nobles--Babylonian. Rather, in a bad sense, tyrants; as in Is 14:5, "rulers" in parallelism to "the wicked"; and Job 21:28 [Maurer].
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3. sanctified ones--the Median and Persian soldiers solemnly set apart by Me for the destruction of Babylon, not inwardly "sanctified," but designated to fulfil God's holy purpose (Jr 51:27, 28; Joe 3:9, 11; where the Hebrew for prepare war is "sanctify" war).
for mine anger--to execute it.
rejoice in my highness--"Those who are made to triumph for My honor" [Horsley]. The heathen Medes could not be said to "rejoice in God's highness" Maurer translates, "My haughtily exulting ones" (Zep 3:11); a special characteristic of the Persians [Herodotus,1.88]. They rejoiced in their own highness, but it was His that they were unconsciously glorifying.
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4. the mountains--namely, which separate Media and Assyria, and on one of which the banner to rally the hosts is supposed to be reared.
tumultuous noise--The Babylonians are vividly depicted as hearing some unwonted sound like the din of a host; they try to distinguish the sounds, but can only perceive a tumultuous noise.
nations--Medes, Persians, and Armenians composed Cyrus' army.
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5. They--namely, "Jehovah," and the armies which are "the weapons of His indignation."
far country--Media and Persia, stretching to the far north and east.
end of heaven--the far east (Psa 19:6).
destroy--rather, "to seize" [Horsley].
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8. pangs--The Hebrew means also a "messenger." Horsley, therefore, with the Septuagint translates, "The heralds (who bring word of the unexpected invasion) are terrified." Maurer agrees with English Version, literally, "they shall take hold of pangs and sorrows."
woman ... travaileth--(1Th 5:3).
amazed--the stupid, bewildered gaze of consternation.
faces ... flames--"their visages have the livid hue of flame" [Horsley]; with anguish and indignation.
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9. cruel--not strictly, but unsparingly just; opposed to mercy. Also answering to the cruelty (in the strict sense) of Babylon towards others (Is 14:17) now about to be visited on itself.
the land--"the earth" [Horsley]. The language of Is 13:9-13 can only primarily and partially apply to Babylon; fully and exhaustively, the judgments to come, hereafter, on the whole earth. Compare Is 13:10 with Mt 24:29; Re 8:12. The sins of Babylon, arrogancy (Is 13:11; Is 14:11; 47:7, 8), cruelty, false worship (Jr 50:38), persecution of the people of God (Is 47:6), are peculiarly characteristic of the Antichristian world of the latter days (Da 11:32-37; Re 17:3, 6; 18:6, 7, 9-14, 24).
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10. stars, &c.--figuratively for anarchy, distress, and revolutions of kingdoms (Is 34:4; Joe 2:10; Eze 32:7, 8; Am 8:9; Re 6:12-14). There may be a literal fulfilment finally, shadowed forth under this imagery (Re 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.
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12. man ... precious--I will so cut off Babylon's defenders, that a single man shall be as rare and precious as the finest gold.
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15. found--in the city.
joined--"intercepted" [Maurer]. "Every one that has withdrawn himself," namely, to hide in the houses [Gesenius].
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17. Medes--(Is 21:2; Jr 51:11, 28). At that time they were subject to Assyria; subsequently Arbaces, satrap of Media, revolted against the effeminate Sardanapalus, king of Assyria, destroyed Nineveh, and became king of Media, in the ninth century B.C.
not regard silver--In vain will one try to buy his life from them for a ransom. The heathen Xenophon (Cyropædia, 5,1,10) represents Cyrus as attributing this characteristic to the Medes, disregard of riches. A curious confirmation of this prophecy.
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18. bows--in the use of which the Persians were particularly skilled.
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19. glory of kingdoms--(Is 14:4; 47:5; Jr 51:41).
beauty of ... excellency--Hebrew, "the glory of the pride" of the Chaldees; it was their glory and boast.
as ... Gomorrah--as utterly (Jr 49:18; 50:40; Am 4:11). Taken by Cyrus, by clearing out the canal made for emptying the superfluous waters of the Euphrates, and directing the river into this new channel, so that he was able to enter the city by the old bed in the night.
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20. Literally fulfilled.
neither ... Arabian pitch tent--Not only shall it not be a permanent residence, but not even a temporary resting-place. The Arabs, through dread of evil spirits, and believing the ghost of Nimrod to haunt it, will not pass the night there (compare Is 13:21).
neither ... shepherds--The region was once most fertile; but owing to the Euphrates being now no longer kept within its former channels, it has become a stagnant marsh, unfit for flocks; and on the wastes of its ruins (bricks and cement) no grass grows.
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21. wild beasts--Hebrew, tsiyim, animals dwelling in arid wastes. Wild cats, remarkable for their howl [Bochart].
doleful creatures--"howling beasts," literally, "howlings" [Maurer].
owls--rather, "ostriches"; a timorous creature, delighting in solitary deserts and making a hideous noise [Bochart].
satyrs--sylvan demi-gods--half man, half goat--believed by the Arabs to haunt these ruins; probably animals of the goat-ape species [Vitringa]. Devil-worshippers, who dance amid the ruins on a certain night [J. Wolff].
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22. wild beasts of the islands--rather, "jackals"; called by the Arabs "sons of howling"; an animal midway between a fox and a wolf [Bochart and Maurer].
cry--rather, "answer," "respond" to each other, as wolves do at night, producing a most dismal effect.
dragons--serpents of various species, which hiss and utter dolorous sounds. Fable gave them wings, because they stand with much of the body elevated and then dart swiftly. Maurer understands here another species of jackal.
her time ... near--though one hundred seventy-four years distant, yet "near" to Isaiah, who is supposed to be speaking to the Jews as if now captives in Babylon (Is 14:1, 2).
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