Isaiah 21
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v1
The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
v2
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 Mediaโs sighing.
v3
Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I canโt hear. I am so dismayed that I canโt see.
v4
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
v5
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
v6
For the Lord said to me, โGo, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
v7
When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.โ
v8
He cried like a lion: โLord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
v9
Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.โ He answered, โFallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
v10
You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!โ That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
v11
The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, โWatchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?โ
v12
The watchman said, โThe morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.โ
v13
The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.
v14
They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
v15
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
v16
For the Lord said to me, โWithin a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
v17
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.โ