Isaias 21:1
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.
Challoner: The desert of the seaSo Babylon is here called, because from a city as full of people as the sea is with water, it was become a desert.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Onus deserti maris. Sicut turbines ab africo veniunt, de deserto venit, de terra horribili.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Τὸ ὅραμα τῆς ἐρήμου. Ὡς καταιγὶς δι᾽ ἐρήμου διέλθοι, ἐξ ἐρήμου ἐρχομένη ἐκ γῆς· φοβερὸν
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מַשָּׂ֖א מִדְבַּר יָ֑ם כְּסוּפ֤וֹת בַּנֶּ֨גֶב֙ לַֽחֲלֹ֔ף מִמִּדְבָּ֣ר בָּ֔א מֵאֶ֖רֶץ נוֹרָאָֽה
Haydock's commentary
The desert of the sea. So Babylon is here called, because from a city as full of people as the sea is with water, it was become a desert. (Challoner)
After its fall, it was mostly inundated, chap. xiii. 20.
Land. Media and Persia, which lay to the south, and were not so beautiful as the environs of Babylon.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.