Isaiah 21
Revised Geneva Translation
21 The burden of the Desert Sea. As the whirlwinds in the South used to pass from the wilderness, so shall it come from the horrible land.
2 A grievous vision was shown to me: “The treacherous deal treacherously and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam. Besiege Media. I have caused all its mourning to cease.”
3 Therefore, my loins are filled with sorrow. Sorrows have taken me, as the sorrows of a woman in childbirth. I was bowed down when I heard it. I was amazed when I saw it.
4 My heart failed. Fearfulness troubled me. He has turned the night of my pleasures into fear for me.
5 Prepare the table. Watch in the watchtower. Eat. Drink. Arise, you princes. Anoint the shield.
6 For thus has the LORD said to me, “Go. Set a watchman to tell what he sees.”
7 And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a chariot of a donkey and a chariot of a camel. And he listened and took great care.
8 And he cried like a lion, “My lord! I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime. And I am set in my watch every night!
9 “And behold, this man’s chariot comes with two horsemen.” And he answered and said, “Babel has fallen! It has fallen! And He has broken all the images of its gods to the ground!”
10 O, my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have shown to you.
11 The burden of Dumah. It calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what was in the night? Watchman, what was in the night?”
12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will, (as he) inquire. Return and come!”
13 The burden against Arabia. In the forest of Arabia you shall stay the night, you caravans of Dedanites.
14 O inhabitants of the land of Tema, bring forth water to meet the thirsty. Meet him who flees with bread.
15 For they flee from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16 For thus has the LORD said to me, “Within a year (according to the years of a hireling), all the glory of Kedar shall fail.
17 “And the residue of the number of the strong archers of the sons of Kedar shall be few. For the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.”
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