Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 14:23
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Isaiah14:23
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern , and pools of water : and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
A great Water-fowl, which thrusting its Bill into some broken Reed, or other hollow thing, makes a great noise; which also delights in solitary places, as also in Waterish Grounds, such as those were about Babylon. Others render the Word Hedg-hog, or Por[illegible: 1+ letters]upine: But this being not considerable in it self, nor at all necessary for the clearing of the Text, I shall not trouble the English Reader with any Discourse about it: And the Learned may consult my Latin Synopsis.
The Ground about Babylon was of it self very moist and waterish, because of the great River Euphrates running by it, which was kept from overflowing the Country with great Charge and Labour; which being neglected, as it must needs be when the City was destroyed and dispeopled, it was easily turned into Pools of Water.
Marginal references: Ch. 34. 11. Zeph. 2. 14.
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