Isa 21:3 | JFB | STEP | 3. Isaiah imagines himself among the exiles in Babylon and cannot help feeling moved by the calamities which come on it. So for Moab ( ; ). pain-- (Compare ; , ; ). at the hearing-- The Hebrew may mean, "I was so bowed down that I could not hear; I was so dismayed that I could not see" ( ; ) [Maurer].

‏ Isaiah 21:3

3. Isaiah imagines himself among the exiles in Babylon and cannot help feeling moved by the calamities which come on it. So for Moab (Is 15:5; 16:11).

pain--(Compare Is 13:8; Eze 30:4, 19; Na 2:10).

at the hearing--The Hebrew may mean, "I was so bowed down that I could not hear; I was so dismayed that I could not see" (Ge 16:2; Psa 69:23) [Maurer].