Burden] see Isaiah 13:1. Desert of the sea] i.e. Babylonia: sea refers to the Euphrates, the word being used in Hebrew of a large river, as in Isaiah 19:5 of the Nile. South] the technical name for the S. of Judah, a region specially liable to tempests: Jeremiah 4:11-13; Hosea 13:15; Zechariah 9:14.
It cometh] i.e. the tidings conveyed in the prophet's vision.