Isaiah Chapter 21 Back Next{21:1} The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
{21:2} A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the
destroyer destroys. Go up,
Elam; attack! I have stopped all of
Media's sighing.
{21:3} Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.
{21:4} My
heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
{21:5} They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They
drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
{21:6} For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
{21:7} When he sees a troop,
horsemen in pairs, a troop of
donkeys, a troop of
camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness."
{21:8} He cried like a
lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
{21:9} Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is
Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
{21:10} You are my threshing, and the
grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, I have declared to you.
{21:11} The burden of
Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"
{21:12} The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
{21:13} The burden on
Arabia. In the
forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of
Dedanites.
{21:14} They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the
fugitives with their
bread.
{21:15} For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent
bow, and from the heat of battle.
{21:16} For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of
Kedar will fail,
{21:17} and the residue of the number of the
archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it."
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