Isaiah 13:20

"Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah."

Key Reflection

Babylon, once a symbol of grandeur and pride for the Chaldeans, will suffer a fate akin to Sodom and Gomorrah, utterly destroyed by divine judgment. The original audience would have recognized this as a dire prediction, drawing on their memories of the devastating destruction of those ancient cities as recounted in Genesis 19, illustrating that even powerful nations are not immune to God’s wrath if they resist His will.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

It shall never be inhabited -This has been completely fulfilled. It is now, and has been for centuries, a scene of wide desolation, and is a heap of ruins, and there is every indication that it will continue so to be. From Rauwolff’s testimony it appears, that in the sixteenth century ‘there was not a house to be seen;’ and now the ‘eye wanders over a barren desert, in which the ruins are nearly the only indication that it had ever been inhabited.

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