Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

  • KJV King James Version

    And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs. And he spoke and said: 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.'

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Cross-references (17)

Passages linked to Isaiah 21:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Revelation 18:2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!
  • Jeremiah 51:8 Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed.
  • Revelation 14:8 Another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality.”
  • Jeremiah 51:44 I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
  • Isaiah 13:19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • Isaiah 14:4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
  • Isaiah 46:1-2 Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary. They stoop and they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity.
  • Jeremiah 50:2-3 “Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal: say, ‘Babylon has been taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed! Her images are disappointed. Her idols are dismayed.’ For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, both man and animal.
  • Jeremiah 50:9 For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in array against her. She will be taken from there. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man. None of them will return in vain.
  • Jeremiah 50:29 “Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
  • Jeremiah 50:42 They take up bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.
  • Jeremiah 51:27 “Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!
  • Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land will be confounded. All her slain will fall in the middle of her.
  • Jeremiah 51:52 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded will groan.
  • Jeremiah 51:64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
  • Revelation 18:21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.

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Explain this verse (14 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The watchman whom Isaiah set up, told him who…

The watchman whom Isaiah set up, told him who came toward Babylon, and the Angel declared that it should be destroyed: all this was done in a vision.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Behold; the sum of what I have discovered is…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men,.... Or…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Men - Not fitted with goods, but provided with…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. Here cometh a chariot of men, &c.…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And, behold ... a chariot of men - This…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Horsemen, drawn by the ass and camel, ver. 7.…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain chariot of men--chariots with men in them; or rather,…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. But soon his complaint is hushed, and then…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. Hardly has he spoken when the appointed vision…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) And, behold, here cometh . . .—Better, Behold,…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And, behold, here cometh, etc. Our translators make the…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 21:9 Babylon is fallen, fallen: Assyrian king Sennacherib destroyed…

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