Babylon's Demise Prophecied

In this chapter the Lord prophecies the downfall of Babylon. Although He had already done so in Chapters 13 and 21, He repeats it to underscore the great harm the Babylonians will inflict upon Israel and the world. This was written approximately 166 years before the fall of Babylon to the Media Persians under Cyrus. As a result this event will stop the Babylonians in that status and cause the city of Babylon to lie in remission until the Antichrist makes it his civil and economic world headquarters yet future to us today. They promulgated the occult, a love for commerce instead of God and a rebellious attitude against all morality and obedience to God.

The Babylonians, Judah's captors in 586 B.C., would become captives themselves of the Media-Persians. Isaiah the prophet likens Babylon to a princess who sits on the ground in mourning for her family who have been killed. The mourning period over, she gets up to return to her throne, only to be told that her kingdom has been conquered and her people taken into captivity. Now no longer will she be delicate and dainty. She will be lower than common. She will be a prisoner of war.