Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
The days come - 120 years afterward. This is the first intimation that the Jews would be carried to Babylon-the first designation of their place of punishment. The general prophecy of Moses (Leviticus 26:33; Deuteronomy 28:64): the more particular one of Ahijah, in Jeroboam's time (1 Kings 14:15), "beyond the river;" and of Amos 5:27, "captivity beyond Damascus," are now concentrated in this specific one as to "Babylon." The contemporary Micah foretells the same exile, and the return from it, explicitly. So that it is no objection to the genuineness of the latter half of Isaiah's prophecies that Isaiah passes from Assyria to the restoration from Babylon in it (Micah 4:10). It was an exact retribution in kind, that as Babylon had been the instrument of Hezekiah's and Judah's sin, so also it should be the instrument of their punishment.