A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
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Gill's Exposition
A grievous vision is declared unto me,.... The prophet; meaning the vision of Babylon's destruction, which was "hard", as the word signifies, and might seem harsh and cruel; not to him, nor to the…
Barnes' Notes
A grievous vision - Margin, as in Hebrew ‘Hard.’ On the word ‘vision,’ see the note at Isa 1:1. The sense here is, that the vision which the prophet saw was one that indicated great calamity Isa…
We had one burden of Babylon before (ch. 13); here we have another prediction of its fall. God saw fit thus to possess his people with the belief of this event by line upon line, because Babylon…
Cambridge Bible
A grievous(lit. "hard") vision is declared unto me by the "watchman," Isa 21:21. "Hard" may mean either "calamitous" (1Ki 14:6) or "difficult," "hard of interpretation" (Joh 6:60).
the treacherous…
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