But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. Sermons
I. LITERAL FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY CONFIRMING THE DIVINE WORD. II. GENERAL FULFILMENTS THEREBY SHOWN TO BE EQUALLY CONFIRMATORY. When once the principle is established, we are freed from all bondage to demands for exact and minute agreements, and can freely read Scripture prophecy as full of poetical figure and imagery. - R.T.
Babylon...shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. All this we may say is historical and local. On the other hand, all this is moral and suggestive. This process may take place in the Babylon of the mind. The greatest mind is only safe whilst it worships. The most magnificent intellectual temple is only secure from the judgment and whirlwind of heaven in proportion as its altar is defended from the approach of every unworthy suppliant. If we hand over God's altar, whether mental or ecclesiastical, to wrong custodians, or devote either to forbidden purposes, then make way for God's judgments: wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and the houses that were full of beauty and colour and charm shall be full of doleful creatures; and the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces. This may happen to any one of us. Beware of arrogancy, pride, worldliness, self-sufficiency; beware of the betrayal of trusts: nature will re-enter if we be unfaithful. We speak of our wisdom in putting cautionary covenants into all our legal documents, and especially a man assures himself that he is doubly safe when he has secured the right of re-entry under certain breaches of agreement; he says to himself with complacency, That is justifiable; I have arranged that in the event of certain things failing I shall re-enter. Nature always puts that clause into her covenants. She re-enters in a moment. If the gardener is too late by one day with his spade or seed or other attention, nature begins to re-enter; and if he tarry for a week he will find that nature has made great advances into the property. It is so with education, with the keeping up of intelligence, with the maintenance of healthy discipline; relax a month, and nature re-enters, and nature plays the spoiler. Nature is not a thrifty, careful husbandman. Nature has a function of desolation; she will grow weeds in your richest flower beds if you neglect them for a day. God re-enters by the spirit of judgment and by the visitations of anger. Herein His providence is but in harmony with the kingdom which He has instituted within the sphere which we call husbandry, and even within the sphere which we denominate by education or discipline. It is one government. Neglect your music for a month, and you will find at the end that nature has re-entered, and you are not wanted; you have not brought with you the wedding garment of preparation up to date. There must be no intermission; the last line must be filled in. Nature will not have things done in the bulk, in the gross: nature will not allow us simply to write the name; she will weave her web work all round the garment if we have neglected the borders, and paid attention to only the middle parts.(J. Parker, D. D.) (Sir E. Strachey, Bart.) (Sir E. Strachey, Bart.) The word which most versions and commentators agree with the LXX in rendering "demons" or "satyrs" is used in Leviticus 17:7 and 2 Chronicles 11:15 for demons which the Jews worshipped.(Sir E. Strachey, Bart.). People Amoz, Babylonians, Isaiah, OphirPlaces Babylon, Gomorrah, Ophir, SodomTopics Animals, Beasts, Creatures, Crying, Dance, Dancing, Daughters, Desert, Doleful, Dwell, Dwelt, Evil, Ferrets, Fill, Frolic, Full, Goats, Holes, Houses, Howling, Howlings, Jackals, Lain, Leap, Lie, Ostrich, Ostriches, Owls, Satyrs, Shaggy, Skip, Spirits, Waste, Wild, Wild-cats, ZiimOutline 1. God musters the armies of his wrath6. He threatens to destroy Babylon by the Medes 19. The desolation of Babylon Dictionary of Bible Themes Isaiah 13:1-22Library The Blind Man's Guide'I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.'--ISAIAH xiii. 16. The grand stormy verses before these words, with all their dread array of natural convulsions, have one object--the tender guidance promised in the text. So we have the combination of terror and love, the blending in the divine government of terrible … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and Ungodly Men. A Clearing-Up Storm in the Realm "If So be that the Spirit of God Dwell in You. Now if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ, He is None of His. " Isaiah Links Isaiah 13:21 NIVIsaiah 13:21 NLT Isaiah 13:21 ESV Isaiah 13:21 NASB Isaiah 13:21 KJV Isaiah 13:21 Bible Apps Isaiah 13:21 Parallel Isaiah 13:21 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 13:21 Chinese Bible Isaiah 13:21 French Bible Isaiah 13:21 German Bible Isaiah 13:21 Commentaries Bible Hub |