| 21 | Isaiah | ||
| 1 | The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. | A vision of the fall of Babylon. Is.21.1-10 | |
| 2 | A stern vision is told to me; the plunderer plunders, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam, lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end. | ||
| 3 | Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear, I am dismayed so that I cannot see. | ||
| 4 | My mind reels, horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. | ||
| 5 | They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes, oil the shield! | ||
| 6 | For thus Yahweh said to me: "Go, set a watchman, let him announce what he sees. | ||
| 7 | When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, riders on asses, riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently." | ||
| 8 | Then he who saw cried: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Yahweh, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights. | ||
| 9 | And, behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!" And he answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the images of her gods he has shattered to the ground." | ||
| 10 | O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you. | ||
| 11 | The oracle concerning Dumah. "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" | A message about Edom. Is.21.11-12 | |
| 12 | The watchman says: "Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again." | ||
| 13 | The oracle concerning Arabia. O caravans of Dedanites. | A message about Arabia. Is.21.13-17 | |
| 14 | To the thirsty bring water, meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema. | ||
| 15 | For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle. | ||
| 16 | For thus Yahweh said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end; | ||
| 17 | and the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken." | ||
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