Isaiah 14:23

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21 Prepare slaughter for his children
^aBecause of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

Babylon Destroyed

22 “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And cut off from Babylon ^athe name and ^bremnant,
^cAnd offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.

23 “I will also make it a possession for the ^aporcupine,
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.

Assyria Destroyed

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying,
“Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass,
And as I have purposed, so it shall ^astand:

25 That I will break the ^aAssyrian in My land,
And on My mountains tread him underfoot.
Then ^bhis yoke shall be removed from them,
And his burden removed from their shoulders.

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Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 14:23

I will sweep it with the besom of destruction "I will plunge it in the miry gulf of destruction" - I have here very nearly followed the Version of the Septuagint; the reasons for which see in the last note on De Poesi Hebr. Praelect, xxviii.

The besom of destruction, as our Version renders it. bematate . This, says Kimchi, is a Chaldee word: and it is worthy of remark that the prophet, writing to the Chaldeans, uses several words peculiar to their own language to point out the nature of the Divine judgments, and the causes of them. See the note on Jeremiah 10:11 (note). Sixteen of Kennicott' s MSS., and seventeen of De Rossi' s, and one ancient of my own, have the word bematatey , in the plural. "I will sweep her with the besoms of destruction."

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