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**burden.** The fifth of the seven burdens.
**of** = relating to. Genitive of Relation. App-17 .
**the sea.** The waters of the Euphrates in flood were so called, as the Nile was ([Isaiah 19:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/19/6) ). Compare [Revelation 17:3](../../../kjv/revelation/17/3) , [Revelation 17:15](../../../kjv/revelation/17/15) .
**whirlwinds** = storms.
**pass** = sweep.

**dealer** = one.
**sighing.** Caused by the oppression of Babylon.

**night.** A *Homonym.* Hebrew. *nesheph =* darkness, here, but daylight in [Job 7:4](../../../kjv/job/7/4) . [1 Samuel 30:17](../../../kjv/1-samuel/30/17) . See notes there. The Revised Version, in doubt, renders it here "twilight".
**pleasure** = joy.
**fear** = trembling.

**Prepare, &c.** Figure of speech *Irony.* App-6 .

**a chariot** = a troop.
**a chariot with a couple of horsemen** = a troop of horsemen in pairs.

**Alion: My LORD*.** Read: [as] a lion, "O LORD", &c.

**men.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 .
**Babylon is fallen, &c.** Note the Figure of speech *Epizeuxis* , for emphasis.
**the graven images of her gods.** Reference to Pentateuch. Phrase peculiar to [Deuteronomy 7:25](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/7/25) ; [Deuteronomy 12:3](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/12/3) . App-92 .

**threshing.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause) for the results of it. Here = my oppressed People. Compare [Isaiah 41:15](../../../kjv/isaiah/41/15) .[Micah 4:13](../../../kjv/micah/4/13) .[Jeremiah 51:33](../../../kjv/jeremiah/51/33) .
**corn of my floor.** Literally son of my threshingfloor.
**the LORD of hosts.** See note on [Isaiah 1:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/9) .
**the God of Israel.** See note on [Isaiah 29:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/29/23) .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .

**burden.** The sixth of the seven burdens.
**Dumah** = Edom. An abbreviated form of fuller name "Idumea" ([Isaiah 34:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/5) .[Ezekiel 35:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/35/15) ; [Ezekiel 36:5](../../../kjv/ezekiel/36/5) .[Mark 3:8](../../../kjv/mark/3/8); [Mark 3:8](../../../kjv/mark/3/8) ).
**Dumah** = silence, prophetic of its end.
**Seir.** The inheritance of Esau (or Edom).
**what of the night?** = how far is it in the night? Note the Figure of speech *Epizeuxis* . Repeated in an abbreviated form thus: Hebrew. *shomer mah-millayelah? shomer ma-milleyl* ? = how far gone is the night? how far gone the night? This is Edom's inquiry.

**The morning cometh, &c.** This may be the oracle of silence implied in the name "Dumah" (see above, and compare [Psalms 94:17](../../../kjv/psalms/94/17) ; [Psalms 115:17](../../../kjv/psalms/115/17) ).
**if ye will inquire.** Isaiah had no answer. He is silent, but intimates that they may inquire again.

**burden.** The seventh and last of the seven burdens
**upon Arabia:** *ba'rab* = in Arabia.
**in Arabia:** or, in the evening, or, at sunset. The name is as significant as "Dumah" ([Isaiah 21:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/21/11) ).
**travelling companies** = caravans.
**Dedanim** = Dedanites, Descendants of Abraham by Keturah: Dedan, son of Midian ([Genesis 25:3](../../../kjv/genesis/25/3) . [1 Chronicles 1:32](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/1/32) ).

**Tema.** Descendants of Abraham through Hagar and Ishmael ([Genesis 25:3](../../../kjv/genesis/25/3) . [1 Chronicles 1:32](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/1/32) )
**:** both mentioned in [Jeremiah 25:23](../../../kjv/jeremiah/25/23) .[Job 6:19](../../../kjv/job/6/19) .
**brought** = bring ye.
**prevented** = meet ye.

**they fled.** From the Assyrian invaders.

**Within a year.** Later afflictions were foretold in [Jeremiah 49:28](../../../kjv/jeremiah/49/28) .
**Kedar.** Another descendant of Abraham by Hagar through Ishmael ([Genesis 25:13](../../../kjv/genesis/25/13) ).

**mighty men.** Hebrew. *gibbor* . App-14 .
**children** = sons.

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