The world — The Babylonish empire, which is called the world, as the Roman empire afterwards was, because it was extended to a great part of the world.
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Isaiah 13:11
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.