Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
REPETITION OF THE ASSURANCE GIVEN IN THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CHAPTERS TO THE JEWS ABOUT TO BE CAPTIVES IN BABYLON, THAT THEIR ENEMY SHOULD BE DESTROYED AND THEY BE DELIVERED. (Isaiah 21:1-10)
desert—the champaign between Babylon and Persia; it was once a desert, and it was to become so again.
of the sea—The plain was covered with the water of the Euphrates like a "sea" (Jeremiah 51:13, Jeremiah 51:36; so Isaiah 11:15, the Nile), until Semiramis raised great dams against it. Cyrus removed these dykes, and so converted the whole country again into a vast desert marsh.
whirlwinds in the south— (Job 37:9; Zechariah 9:14). The south wind comes upon Babylon from the deserts of Arabia, and its violence is the greater from its course being unbroken along the plain (Job 1:19).
desert—the plain between Babylon and Persia.
terrible land—Media; to guard against which was the object of Nitocris' great works [HERODOTUS, 1.185]. Compare as to "terrible" applied to a wilderness, as being full of unknown dangers, Deuteronomy 1:29.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 21:1:
Job 1:19
Job 9:11
Job 37:9
Isaiah 21:1
Jeremiah 51:13
Jeremiah 51:36
Zechariah 9:14
Revelation 12:14
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