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My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
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Pleasure Turned to Panic
Most commentators agree that the prophet is speaking from the perspective of a Babylonian. A night that was set aside for feasting and pleasure—the very night Babylon fell to the Persians as described in Daniel 5—was suddenly transformed by God into a night of horror, panic, and trembling.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My heart panted - Margin, ‘My mind wandered.’ The Hebrew word rendered ‘panted’ (תעה tâ‛âh) means to wander about…
19th Century
Anglican
The night of my pleasure ... —The words point to the prophet’s longing for the darkness of night, either as a time of res…
16th Century
Protestant
My heart was shaken. Others correctly translate it, “my heart wandered;” for excessive terror moves the heart, as it were, out of its plac…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My heart panted; Fluttered about, and could hardly keep its place: or, "my mind wandered" F18; like a person i…
Babylon was a flat country, abundantly watered. The destruction of Babylon, so often prophesied by Isaiah, was typical of the destruction of the gr…
13th Century
Catholic
The burden of the desert of the sea. Here the prophet threatens the enemies who oppressed Israel by taking their goods, e…
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