Isaiah 21:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ My heartb panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. ”

Isaiah 21:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My heart panted - Margin, ‘My mind wandered.’ The Hebrew word rendered ‘panted’ ( תעה tâ‛âh ) means to wander about; to stagger; to be giddy; and is applied often to one that staggers by bein...
Isaiah 21:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

My heart panted, fearfulness terrified me: the night (g) of my pleasure hath he turned into fear to me. (g) He prophecies the death of Belshazzar as in ( Daniel 5:30 ) who in the midst of his pleasu...
Isaiah 21:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Capture of Babylon . This prophecy describes a siege and capture of Babylon by Elam and Media. It is almost universally considered to have been written shortly before the capture of Babylon by C...
Isaiah 21:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

night. . Homonym. Hebrew. nesheph = darkness, here, but daylight in Job 7:4 ; 1 Samuel 30:17 . See notes there. The Revised Version, in doubt, renders it here "twilight". pleasure . joy. f...
Isaiah 21:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. My heart was shaken. Others render it not amiss, “my heart wandered;” for excessive terror moves the heart, as it were, out of its place. He declares how sudden and unlooked for will be t...
Isaiah 21:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Isaiah 21:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Therefore are my loins filled with pain, &c.— We have here a symbolical description of the greatness of the Babylonish calamity; the prophet exhibiting in himself, as in a figure, an emblem of...
Isaiah 21:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. My heart panted, х taa`aah ( H8582 )] - literally, erred: so palpitated ( Psalms 38:...
Isaiah 21:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Vision of Babylon's Fall The subject of this section is the siege of Babylon, and the dismay with which the prophet receives tidings of its fall. The siege referred to can scarcely be the one at t...
Isaiah 21:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XI DRIFTING TO EGYPT 720-705 13. B.C. Isaiah 20:1-6 ; Isaiah 21:1-10 ; Isaiah 38:1-22 ; Isaiah 39:1-8 FROM 720, when chapter 11 may have been published, to 705-or, by rough reckoni...
Isaiah 21:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this chapter we have prophecies concerning Babylon, Dumah, and Arabia. With regard to Babylon, the prophet has seen the vision of the whirlwind sweeping against it, and so terrible is it that he i...
Isaiah 21:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here the Prophet describes as it should seem, the terrible consternation and alarm, the impious monarch of Babylon would be thrown into, in the memorable night of his destruction. Let the Reader comp...
Isaiah 21:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

My heart panted ,.... Fluttered about, and could hardly keep its place: or, "my mind wandered" r; like a person in distraction and confusion, that knew not what to think say or do: fearfulness aff...
Isaiah 21:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. Ver. 4. My heart panted. ] Or, Fluttereth to and fro, as not able to keep in its place. Viro...
Isaiah 21:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therefore my loins , &c. “We have here a symbolical description of the greatness of the Babylonish calamity; the prophet exhibiting in himself, as in a figure, an emblem of the extreme distress,...
Isaiah 21:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Doom of Babylon. B. C. 714. 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in...
Isaiah 21:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The night of my pleasure; the night, in which I used to have a sweet repose and sleep. He seems to have had this vision in a night. But withal this horror of the prophet by night was typical, and d...
Isaiah 21:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Burden of the Wilderness of the Sea ( Isaiah 21:1-10 ). The interpretations of this prophecy have been varied although all finally must relate it to one of the sackings of Babylon ( Isaiah 21:...
Isaiah 21:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 21:1 . The desert of the sea. The army which invaded Babylon came not directly against it; but Cyrus made a circuitous route, and collected part of his army from the deserts and mountains t...
Isaiah 21:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

The burden of the desert of the sea The desert of the sea This enigmatical name for Babylon was no doubt suggested by the actual character of the country in which the city stood. It was an end...
Isaiah 21:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 21:1-23 THE BURDEN OF THE DESERT OF THE SEA . This is a short and somewhat vague, but highly poetic, "burden of Babylon" It is probably an earlier prophecy...
Isaiah 21:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Oracle Against Babylon
Isaiah 21:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 25:36-38 ; 2 Samuel 13:28 ; 2 Samuel 13:29 ; Daniel 5:1 ; Daniel 5:30 ; Daniel 5:5 ; Esther 5:12 ; Esther 7:6-10 ; Isaiah 5:11-14 ; Jeremiah 51:39 ; Jeremiah 51:57 ; Job 21:11-13...
Isaiah 21:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The night — In which I used to have sweet repose. He seems to have had this vision in a night. But withal this signified that horror and destruction, which should befal the Babylonians in a night o...

Isaiah 21:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 21:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 21:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 21:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 21:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 21:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 21:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 21:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 21:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 21:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 21:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 21:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 21:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes