21:3,4
Isaiah is not just a prophetic newsreader, he is intimately involved in the prophecies. He feels pain in his body over the things he sees and foretells. Isaiah sees the scale of the destruction to come. In Bible times the heart was to do with the intellect as well as emotions, so when we read of the heart we must not think that this is somehow detached from the mind. Isaiah had hoped for some relief for Judah, but things were not heading that way.
21:5
Having recovered from his own feelings of anguish, Isaiah continues his prophecy. The Babylonian officers were at ease, complacent in their apparent security, but Isaiah calls on them to prepare for war. We should be careful never to go along with the so-called wisdom of the age. The world can seem so sure of itself, and it can seem so convincing. Yet most of the time the world is taking rubbish, and its lack of knowledge and understanding will soon be shown up for what it is.
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