Isaiah 21 — GNB
21Verse 1The prophecy concerning the desert of the sea. As storms which rush along through the south, So it cometh from the desert, From the terrible land.Verse 2A grievous vision was revealed to me; The plunderer plundereth, and the destroyer destroyeth. “Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All sighing do I make to cease.”Verse 3Therefore are my loins full of pain; Pangs have seized me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; For convulsions I cannot hear; For anguish I cannot see.Verse 4My heart panteth, Terror hath seized upon me; The evening of my desire is changed into horror.Verse 5The table is prepared; the watch is set; They eat; they drink; “Arise, ye princes! Anoint the shield!”Verse 6For thus said the Lord unto me: “Go, set a watchman, Who shall declare what he seeth.”Verse 7And he saw a troop, horsemen in pairs, Riders on asses, and riders on camels, And he watched with the utmost heed.Verse 8Then he cried like a lion: “My Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the daytime, And keep my post all the night;Verse 9And behold, there cometh a troop, Horsemen in pairs.” Again also he lifted up his voice, and said: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods are cast broken to the ground.”Verse 10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor! What I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, That have I declared to you.Verse 11The prophecy concerning Dumah. A voice came to me from Seir: “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”Verse 12The watchman saith: “Morning cometh, and also night. If ye will inquire, inquire! Return, come!”Verse 13The prophecy against the Arabians. In the thickets of Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedan!Verse 14The inhabitants of the land of Tema Bring water to the thirsty; They come to meet the fugitive with bread.Verse 15For they flee from swords, From the drawn sword, And from the bent bow, And from the fury of war.Verse 16For thus saith the Lord to me: Within one year, according to the years of a hireling, Shall all the glory of Kedar be consumed.Verse 17The remainder of the mighty bowmen of the sons of Kedar shall be diminished; For Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath said it.