The burden concerning the desert by the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The desert of the sea. So Babylon is here called, because from a city as full of people as the sea is with water, it was become a desert. (Challoner)
After its fall, it was mostly inundated, chap. xiii. 20.
Land. Media and Persia, which lay to the south, and were not so beautiful as the environs of Babylon.
