Isaías 21:1-10

1 Profecía sobre el desierto del mar . Como se lanzan los torbellinos en el Neguev, así viene el invasor del desierto, de una tierra temible.

2 Una visión dura me ha sido mostrada: el pérfido obra pérfidamente, y el destructor destruye. Sube, Elam; sitia, Media. He puesto fin a todo gemir que ella ha causado.

3 Por esta razón mis lomos están llenos de angustia; dolores se han apoderado de mí como dolores de mujer de parto. Estoy tan confundido que no oigo, tan aterrado que no veo.

4 Desvaría mi mente, el espanto me sobrecoge; el anochecer que anhelaba se me convirtió en terror.

5 Ponen la mesa, extienden el mantel, comen, beben. ¡Levantaos, capitanes, engrasad los escudos!,

6 porque así me ha dicho el Señor: Ve, pon centinela que dé aviso de lo que vea.

7 Cuando vea hombres montados, jinetes de dos en dos, filas de asnos, filas de camellos, que preste mucha atención, muchísima atención.

8 Entonces el centinela gritó: Oh Señor, de día estoy yo continuamente en la atalaya, y todas las noches permanezco en mi puesto de guardia.

9 He aquí, vienen hombres montados, jinetes de dos en dos. Y uno respondió, y dijo: Cayó, cayó Babilonia, y todas las imágenes de sus dioses están destrozadas sobre la tierra.

10 ¡Oh mi pueblo trillado y afligido de mi era! Lo que he oído del SEÑOR de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel, os doy a conocer.

Isaías 21:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 21

This chapter contains prophecies against Babylon, Idumea, and Arabia. The prophecy against Babylon is called "the burden of the desert of the sea"; whose enemies are described by the fierce manner of their coming, and by the land from whence they came, Isa 21:1 which vision being declared to the prophet, is called a grievous one; what made it so was treachery among themselves; and the Medes and Persians are invited to besiege them, Isa 21:2 their terror and distress upon it are represented by the pains of a woman in travail, whom the prophet personates, Isa 21:3,4 and by the methods they took to defend themselves, to which they were alarmed, when in the greatest security and jollity, Isa 21:5 all which is illustrated by the vision of the watchman, who saw the Medes and Persians on the march, signified by a chariot and a couple of horsemen, who declares the fall of Babylon, and the destruction of its gods, Isa 21:6-9 which would issue in the good and comfort of the church and people of God, Isa 21:10 then follows the prophecy against Idumea, which consists of a question put to the watchman, and his answer to it; to which an exhortation is added, Isa 21:11,12 and the chapter concludes with another prophecy against Arabia: the calamities threatened are lodging in a forest, thirst, famine, and fleeing from the sword Isa 21:13-15, and the time is fixed when all this should be, by which their glory would fail, and the number of their archers and mighty men be lessened; for the confirmation of which the divine testimony is annexed, Isa 21:16,17.

Footnotes

• [a] O, pas martimo
• [b] As en los M.M.M. y en la versin siriaca; en el T.M. Y grit como un len