Isaías 13:20

20 nunca más será poblada ni habitada de generación en generación; no pondrá tienda allí el árabe, ni los pastores harán descansar allí sus rebaños;

Isaías 13:20 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 13:20

It shall never be inhabited
As it has not been since its utter destruction. Pausanias ^F16, who lived in the times of Adrian, says, Babylon, the greatest city that ever the sun saw, that then there was nothing left of it but a wall: what is now called Babylon is a new city, and built in another place: neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation;
which is the same thing repeated in other and stronger terms, for the confirmation of it: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there;
that sort of the Arabians called Scenitae, because they dwelt in tents, and moved from place to place with their flocks, for the sake of pasture; but here there should be none for them, and therefore would not pitch their tents at it: neither shall the shepherds make their folds there;
as they had used to do in the pastures adjoining to it, which were formerly exceeding good, but now would be barren and unfruitful; and as there would be no shepherds in the city, so neither would any neighbouring ones come hither, or any from distant parts; partly because of the unfruitfulness of the place, and partly through fear of wild beasts, which had their habitation there, as follows. Pliny ^F17 says it was reduced to a mere desert.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Arcadica sive, l. 8. p. 509.
F17 Ut supra. (Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 26.)

Isaías 13:20 In-Context

18 con arcos barrerán a los jóvenes, no tendrán compasión del fruto del vientre, ni de los niños tendrán piedad sus ojos.

19 Y Babilonia, hermosura de los reinos, gloria del orgullo de los caldeos, será como cuando Dios destruyó a Sodoma y a Gomorra;

20 nunca más será poblada ni habitada de generación en generación; no pondrá tienda allí el árabe, ni los pastores harán descansar allí sus rebaños;

21 sino que allí descansarán los moradores del desierto, y llenas estarán sus casas de búhos; también habitarán allí los avestruces, y allí brincarán las cabras peludas.

22 Aullarán las hienas en sus torres fortificadas y los chacales en sus lujosos palacios. Está próximo a llegar su tiempo, y sus días no se prolongarán.