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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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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 21:4
18th Century
Theologian
My heart panted - Margin, ‘My mind wandered.’ The Hebrew word rendered ‘panted’ (תעה tâ‛âh) means to wander about…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 21:4
19th Century
Bishop
The night of my pleasure ... —The words point to the prophet’s longing for the darkness of night, either as a time of res…
John Calvin
On Isaiah 21:4
16th Century
Theologian
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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John Gill
On Isaiah 21:4
17th Century
Pastor
My heart panted; Fluttered about, and could hardly keep its place: or, "my mind wandered" F18; like a person i…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 21:1–10
17th Century
Minister
Babylon was a flat country, abundantly watered. The destruction of Babylon, so often prophesied by Isaiah, was typical of the destruction of the gr…