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Isaiah

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Chapter 21

¹The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a dreadful land. ²A harsh vision is declared to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end. ³Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear, I am dismayed so that I cannot see. ⁴My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. ⁵They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O commanders! Oil the shield! ⁶For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman; let him announce what he sees. ⁷He saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, a chariot of donkeys, a chariot of camels, and he listened diligently, with close attention.” ⁸Then he cried out: “Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am set the whole night. ⁹And behold, here come a troop of riders, a pair of horsemen!” And he answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.” ¹⁰O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you. ¹¹The oracle concerning Dumah. One calls to me from Seir: “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?” ¹²The watchman says: “Morning comes, and also night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again.” ¹³The oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites. ¹⁴To the thirsty bring water; meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema. ¹⁵For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the stress of battle. ¹⁶For thus the Lord said to me: “Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end. ¹⁷And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.”