Prepare the table. These verbs may be taken for participles; as if he had said, “While they were preparing the table and appointing a gua…

Prepare the table Set it, spread it, furnish it with all kind of provisions, as at a feast; and such an one Belshazzar ma…

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…