Isaiah 21:1WEB
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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Isaiah 21:1WEB
The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
Isaiah 21:2WEB
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.
Isaiah 21:3WEB
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 can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.
Isaiah 21:4WEB
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
Isaiah 21:5WEB
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
Isaiah 21:6WEB
For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
Isaiah 21:7WEB
When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
Isaiah 21:8WEB
He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
Isaiah 21:9WEB
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.
Isaiah 21:10WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Isaiah 21:11WEB
The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
Isaiah 21:12WEB
The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
Isaiah 21:13WEB
The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.
Isaiah 21:14WEB
They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
Isaiah 21:15WEB
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
Isaiah 21:16WEB
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,
Isaiah 21:17WEB
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.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.