Teks -- Isaiah 13:20 (NET)

13:20 No one will live there again; no one will ever reside there again. No bedouin will camp there, no shepherds will rest their flocks there.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Isa 13:20 - Inhabited

After the destruction threatened shall be fully accomplished.

Wesley: Isa 13:20 - Arabian

Who dwelt in tents, and wandered from place to place, where they could find pasture.

JFB: Isa 13:20

Literally fulfilled.

JFB: Isa 13:20 - neither . . . Arabian pitch tent

Not only shall it not be a permanent residence, but not even a temporary resting-place. The Arabs, through dread of evil spirits, and believing the ghost of Nimrod to haunt it, will not pass the night there (compare Isa 13:21).

JFB: Isa 13:20 - neither . . . shepherds

The region was once most fertile; but owing to the Euphrates being now no longer kept within its former channels, it has become a stagnant marsh, unfit for flocks; and on the wastes of its ruins (bricks and cement) no grass grows.

Calvin: Isa 13:20 - It shall never be inhabited any more

20.It shall never be inhabited any more By the verb תשב , ( thesheb,) shall sit, he means continuance; as if he had said, “There is no hope of restoring Babylon.” All these forms of expression have precisely the same object, that the Babylonians will be destroyed with such a destruction that their ruin shall be perpetual. The picture is still further heightened by adding, that the desolation will be so great that in that place neither will the Arabians pitch their tents, nor the shepherds their folds That place must have been marvellously forsaken and uncultivated, when it was disregarded by those roving tribes; for the Arabians were a wandering and unsettled nation, and had no fixed abode. Having left their native country, because it was barren, and is therefore called Arabia Deserta, (for it is of that country that we speak,) they devoted themselves to feeding flocks and to hunting, and wandered without any fixed residence; for which reason also the Greeks called them σκηνήται, ( skenetai,) dwellers in tents. Now the country around Babylon was exceedingly fertile before that calamity, which rendered this change the more astonishing and almost miraculous, either because the place lost its former fertility, or because the constant slaughter made all men abhor the sight of it. Undoubtedly the Prophet means that not only will the buildings be thrown down, but the very soil will be accursed.

Defender: Isa 13:20 - never be inhabited

Although Babylon eventually fell into ruins, it has never been completely uninhabited and is currently being rebuilt by the Iraqi government. The final fulfillment of this prophecy will be during the tribulation period (Revelation 18), with utter desolation during the millennium following."

TSK: Isa 13:20

Isa 14:23; Jer 50:3, Jer 50:13, Jer 50:21, Jer 50:39, Jer 50:45, Jer 51:25, Jer 51:29, Jer 51:43, Jer 51:62-64; Rev 18:21-23

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Isa 13:20 - It shall never be inhabited // Neither shall the Arabian

It shall never be inhabited after the destruction threatened shall be fully accomplished.

Neither shall the Arabian who dwelt in tents, and wandered from place, where they could find pasture; but shall avoid this place, either because the land, once noted for great fruitfulness, is now become barren; or because the land is accursed by God, and abhorred by all men; or for fear of the wild beasts, as it follows.

Haydock: Isa 13:20 - Tents

Tents. To dwell, (Calmet) or to traffic. (Theodoret) ---

Another city was built, but not so large, nor in the same place. (Worthington)

Gill: Isa 13:20 - It shall never be inhabited // neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation // neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there // neither shall the shepherds make their folds there

It shall never be inhabited,.... As it has not been since its utter destruction. Pausanias ^p, who lived in the times of Adrian, says, Babylon, the greatest city that ever the sun saw, that then there was nothing left of it but a wall: what is now called Babylon is a new city, and built in another place:

neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; which is the same thing repeated in other and stronger terms, for the confirmation of it:

neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; that sort of the Arabians called Scenitae, because they dwelt in tents, and moved from place to place with their flocks, for the sake of pasture; but here there should be none for them, and therefore would not pitch their tents at it:

neither shall the shepherds make their folds there; as they had used to do in the pastures adjoining to it, which were formerly exceeding good, but now would be barren and unfruitful; and as there would be no shepherds in the city, so neither would any neighbouring ones come hither, or any from distant parts; partly because of the unfruitfulness of the place, and partly through fear of wild beasts, which had their habitation there, as follows. Pliny ^q says it was reduced to a mere desert.