John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 21:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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My heart panted, &c.] Fluttered about, and could hardly keep its place: or, “my mind wandered”f407; like a person in distraction and confusion, that knew not what to think say or do: fearfulness affrighted me; the terror of Cyrus’s army seized him, of its irruption into the city, and of his being destroyed by it; the writing on the wall threw him into a panic, and the news of the Medes and Persians being entered the city increased it: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me; in which he promised himself so much pleasure, at a feast he had made for his princes, wives, and concubines; either in honour of his god, as some thinkf408, being an annual one; or, as Josephus ben Gorionf409 says, on account of the victory he had obtained over the Medes and Persians; and so was quite secure, and never in the least thought of destruction being at hand; but in the midst of all his revelling, mirth, and jollity, the city was surprised and taken, and he slain, (<270501>Daniel 5:1,30). So mystical Babylon, in the midst of her prosperity, while she is saying that she sits a queen, and knows no sorrow, her judgment and plagues shall come upon her, (<661807>Revelation 18:7,8).

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