The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
The predictions as to foreign nations are for the sake of the covenant people, to preserve them from despair, or reliance on human confederacies, and to strengthen their faith in God;-also in order to extirpate narrow-minded nationality. God is YAHWEH (H3068) TO ISRAEL, not for Israel's sake alone, but that He my be thereby 'ELOHIYM (H430) TO THE NATIONS. These prophecies are in their right chronological place, in the beginning of Hezekiah's reign;-then first the nations of Western Asia, on the Tigris and Euphrates, assumed a most menacing aspect.
The burden, х masaa' (H4853)] - weighty or mournful prophecy. So the Chaldaic paraphrases, 'the burden of the cup of malediction' (Grotius). Otherwise simply, the prophetic declaration, from a Hebrew root х naasa' (H5375)], to put forth with the voice anything, as in Numbers 23:7, "Baalam took up his parable" (Maurer). So apparently it means, Proverbs 31:1; Zechariah 12:1. But the primary meaning is probably a weighty saying or solemn prophecy, taken up (as nasa means) in the mouth of man. So Kimchi.
Of Babylon - concerning Babylon.