A grievous vision - Margin, as in Hebrew ‘Hard.’ On the word ‘vision,’ see the note at Isaiah 1:1. The sense here is that the visio…

A grievous vision ... — The verse contains, so to speak, the three tableaux that came in succession before the prophet’s …

A harsh vision. Since the object was to soothe the grief of the people, it might seem inappropriate to call a vision that is an occasion o…

A grievous vision is declared unto me
The prophet; meaning the vision of Babylon's destruction, which was "hard", as…

Babylon was a flat country, abundantly watered. The destruction of Babylon, so often prophesied by Isaiah, was typical of the destruction of the gr…

1. The burden of the desert of the sea. Here the prophet threatens the enemies who oppre ed Israel by taking their goods, ev…