The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
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- WEB The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
- BSB This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
- NKJV The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
- NASB The pronouncement concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
- NLT Isaiah son of Amoz received this message concerning the destruction of Babylon:
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Quick answer
This begins Isaiah's prophetic oracle of judgment against Babylon. God pronounces doom on the great world power.
Overview
The 'burden' (a weighty prophetic oracle) concerns Babylon, the empire that would later carry Judah into exile. That Isaiah 'saw' it underscores its divine origin as revelation. The chapter establishes that even the mightiest kingdoms stand under God's judgment and that he rules the rise and fall of nations.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 50:1The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
- Isa 47:1–15Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
- Isa 1:1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
- Rev 17:1–18And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
- Dan 5:6Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
- Dan 5:28PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- Isa 14:4–23That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
- Jer 25:12–26And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
- Isa 21:1–11The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
- Isa 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Isa 14:28In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
- Isa 15:1The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
- Ezek 12:10Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.
- Isa 43:14Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
- Hab 1:1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
- Isa 21:13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
- Zech 9:1The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
- Isa 17:1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
- Isa 22:1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
- Isa 22:25In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
- Nah 1:1The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- Jer 23:33–38And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
- Mal 1:1The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
- Isa 44:1–2Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
- Isa 19:1The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
- Zech 12:1The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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