Isaiah 21

"The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea.

As whirlwinds in the South pass through,
So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land...My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me; The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me." vv.1,4

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This oracle against the Wilderness of the Sea, is assumed to be Babylon, although Babylon's destruction is prophesied in chapters 13 & 14, but in verse nine of this chapter "Babylon is fallen, is fallen."  "It introduces one of the most vivid and moving descriptions of prophetic experience in the Bible," (Isaiah Vol. 1, John F Sawyer).  Although it seemed like Isaiah, and probably other Israelites, longed for the destruction of Babylon, it still was a horrifying experience.  We see Isaiah's own persona anguish and hard to bare as he sees the vision of destruction, not the fate of Babylon.  In verse five we see that it was a night of feasting and joy that quickly turned into drawing their shields for battle.  In some versions it says the "night of my pleasure" showing the comfortableness of rest and sleep while he's in Babylon interrupted by this vision.  When have you longed for something that when it comes it's hard to face or go through?