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 1 Peter 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 Micah 7:8; Micah 7:16 .