Yesaya 13:19

13:19 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 

Yesaya 21:9

21:9 Look what’s coming!

A charioteer,

a team of horses.” ⁴ 

When questioned, he replies, ⁵ 

“Babylon has fallen, fallen!

All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

[13:19]  ¹ tn Or “most beautiful” (NCV, TEV).

[13:19]  ² tn Heb “the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans.”

[13:19]  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 b.c. Their most famous king, Nebuchadnezzar, conquered Judah in 605 b.c. and destroyed Jerusalem in 586 b.c.

[13:19]  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.

[21:9]  ⁴ tn Or “[with] teams of horses,” or perhaps, “with a pair of horsemen.”

[21:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he answered and said” (so KJV, ASV).