Your mother shall be utterly confounded; she that bore you shall be ashamed: behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Dust, like a suppliant, Isaias xlvii. 1. (Calmet)
Dry. The country shall be equally unfruitful. The waters of the Euphrates being let off, gave a passage to the enemy, ver. 9. (Haydock)
Babylon soon lost its splendour. (Calmet)
Vologeses completed its ruin. (Pliny, vi. 26.)
It ceased to be the metropolis or mother city. (Haydock)
The whole country was laid waste. (Worthington)
