Isaiah 21

Isaiah 21
The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book Book of Isaiah
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 23
Category Nevi'im

Isaiah 21 is the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.[1][2] This chapter contains prophecies against Babylon, Edom and Arabia.

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Structure

The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows:

Verse 1

The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges describes the sub-headings in this chapter as "enigmatic".[5] The Septuagint does not include the words "of the Sea".[6]

As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, even from such a land, so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me.[6]

Verse 9

And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.
And he answered and said,
Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.[7]

Cross reference: Jeremiah 51:8; Isaiah 46:1

  • "Babylon is fallen, is fallen": "announced in a vision."[8]

Verses 11-12

The oracle concerning Dumah

A brief and "obscure" oracle.[9] The Masoretic Text refers to Dumah; the Septuagint refers to Edom,[10] as do the NASB and NLT.[11]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
  2. ↑ Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  3. ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  4. ↑ Ulrich 2010, p. 367-369.
  5. ↑ Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Isaiah 21, accessed 5 April 2018
  6. 1 2 Isaiah 21:1 - Septuagint
  7. ↑ Isaiah 21:9
  8. ↑ The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1006-1007 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
  9. ↑ Barnes' Notes on Isaiah 21, accessed 6 April 2018
  10. ↑ Septuagint: Isaiah 21:11
  11. ↑ BibleGateway.com: Isaiah 21:11

Bibliography

  • Ulrich, Eugene, ed. (2010). The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. Brill.

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