The plain — Of Babylon, which lay in a very plain country. And the title of the sea might well be given to the waters of Babylon, because of the great plenty and multitude of them. South — In those parts which lay southward from Judea, where there were many and great deserts. Pass through — As meeting with no opposition. It — The burden or judgment. Desert — From Media and Persia; a great desert lay between them and Chaldea. A terrible land — From the Medes, a warlike and formidable people.
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Isaiah 21:1
1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.