John Trapp on Isaiah 13:14
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Isaiah13:14
Ver. 14. And it ſhall be as the chaſed Roe] Or, ſhe, that is Babylon, ſhall be, when drunk with ſecurity (that Uſher of De[illegible: 1 letter]truction) ſhe ſhall be ſuddenly ſurprized. So ſtrong were her Walls and Bulwarks, that ſhe feared no irruption of the enemy: and ſo bold ſhe bore her ſelf upon her twenty years proviſion laid in aforehand that ſhe feared no famine, by the ſtraitneſs of a long ſiege. Herodotus telleth us,Herod. lib. 1. Ariſt. Polit. lib. 3. that when Babylon was taken by Cyrus, ſome part of the City knew not of their condition, till the third day after; the ſuddenneſs of their ſurpriſal muſt needs be very dreadful.
They ſhall every man] i.e. All her Confederates and Preſidiaries.
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