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Chapters 13 thru 23 record prophesies concerning other nations. Condemned were Babylon, Moab, Damascus, Egypt, Tyre, Ethiopia, Arabia, Kedar and others. To each Isaiah spells out the instrument that God will use to bring judgment upon them.
However there was hope in the prophesy found in Deut. 32:8-9, "When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, He fixed the bounds of the people according to the number of the sons of God." "Jacob received the Lord's allotted inheritance." These prophecies were to comfort those in Israel who feared God but were oppressed by the nations.
In this chapter we read what God has to say about Babylon, who at this point in time, was little known to Israel but who would in the process of time become more of an enemy to them than any other nation. Here Babylon's destruction is prophesied to come from a far country. Described is the deadly bloody havoc that shall be the plight of Babylon from this instrument of God's judgment.
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