Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 14:21
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Isaiah14:21
Is 14:21-23. God's Determination to Destroy Babylon.
21. Prepare, &c.--charge to the Medes and Persians, as if they were God's conscious instruments.
his children--Belshazzar's (Ex 20:5).
rise--to occupy the places of their fathers.
fill ... with cities--Maurer translates, "enemies," as the Hebrew means in 1Sa 28:16; Psa 139:20; namely, lest they inundate the world with their armies. Vitringa translates, "disturbers." In English Version the meaning is, "lest they fill the land with such cities" of pride as Babylon was.
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