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The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
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Verse 1. The desert of the sea. So Babylon is here called, because from a city as full of people as the sea is with water, it was become a desert. Challoner.—After its fall, it was mostly inundated. Calmet. 13:20.—Land. Media and Persia, which lay to the south, and were not so beautiful as the environs of Babylon.
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