Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 13:11

11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible .

The Babylonish Empire, which is called the world, as the Roman Empire afterward was, Luk. 2. 1. because it was extended to a great part of the World, and because it was vastly populous, and Babylon it self looked more like a World than one City.

Of them who formerly were very terrible for their great Power and Cruelty.

Marginal references: Heb. visit evil upon the world, and upon the wicked their iniquity.