Isaiah Chapter 21 (NKJV)
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1. The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea. As whirlwinds in the South pass through, So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. | |
2. A distressing vision is declared to me; The treacherous dealer deals treacherously, And the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All its sighing I have made to cease. | |
3. Therefore my loins are filled with pain; Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was distressed when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it. | |
4. My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me; The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me. | |
5. Prepare the table, Set a watchman in the tower, Eat and drink. Arise, you princes, Anoint the shield! | |
6. For thus has the Lord said to me "Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees." | |
7. And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels, And he listened earnestly with great care. | |
8. Then he cried, "A lion, my Lord! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night. | |
9. And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!" Then he answered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground." | |
10. Oh, 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. | |
11. The burden against Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" | |
12. The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; Return! Come back!" | |
13. The burden against Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites. | |
14. O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Bring water to him who is thirsty; With their bread they met him who fled. | |
15. For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, From the bent bow, and from the distress of war. | |
16. For thus the Lord has said to me "Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of Kedar will fail; | |
17. and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it." |
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