Isaiah 13:19
ContextNETBible | Babylon, the most admired 1 of kingdoms, the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, 2 will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were. 3 |
XREF | Ge 19:24; De 29:23; Isa 14:4-6,12-15; Jer 49:18; Jer 50:40; Jer 51:41; Da 2:37,38; Da 4:30; Zep 2:9 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Or “most beautiful” (NCV, TEV). 2 tn Heb “the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans.” sn The Chaldeans were a group of tribes who lived in southern Mesopotamia. The established the so-called neo-Babylonian empire in the late seventh century 3 tn Heb “and Babylon…will be like the overthrow by God of Sodom and Gomorrah.” On מַהְפֵּכַת (mahpekhat, “overthrow”) see the note on the word “destruction” in 1:7. |