Isaiah 21

Isaiah 21

1The burden of the wilderness of the sea .

As whirlwinds in the South sweep through , it comes from the wilderness , from an awesome land.

2A 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.

3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish . Pains have seized me , like the pains of a woman in labour . I am in so much pain that I can ’t hear . I am so dismayed that I can ’t see .

4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me . The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me .

5They prepare the table . They set the watch. They eat. They drink . Rise up , you princes , oil the shield !

6For the Lord said to me , “Go , set a watchman . Let him declare what he sees .

7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs , a troop of donkeys , a troop of camels , he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

8He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime , and every night I stay at my post .

9Behold , 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.

10You are my threshing , and the grain of my floor !” That which I have heard from the LORD of Hosts , the God of Israel , I have declared to you .

11The burden of Dumah .

One calls to me out of Seir , “Watchman , what of the night ? Watchman , what of the night ?”

12The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night . If you will enquire , enquire . Come back again .”

13The burden on Arabia .

You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia , you caravans of Dedanites .

14They brought water to him who was thirsty . The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread .

15For they fled away from the swords , from the drawn sword , from the bent bow , and from the heat of battle .

16For the Lord said to me , “Within a year , as a worker bound by contract would count it , all the glory of Kedar will fail ,

17and the residue of the number of the archers , the mighty men of the children of Kedar , will be few ; for the LORD , the God of Israel , has spoken it .”

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