1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Isaiah 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. | 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, Isaias 13:20. --- Land. Media and Persia, which lay to the south, and were not so beautiful as the environs of Babylon. |