Isaiah 21:2 meaning and explanation

A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Isaiah 21:2, Berean Standard Bible

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Isaiah has received a harsh oracle, and here he reports its content. The speaker within the vision is God, commanding Elam and Media, eastern powers, to march against Babylon, the empire that has been betraying treaties and crushing others.

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