Isaiah 21 — WEBU
21Verse 1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.Verse 2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.Verse 3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.Verse 4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.Verse 5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!Verse 6For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.Verse 7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”Verse 8He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.Verse 9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.Verse 10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.Verse 11The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”Verse 12The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”Verse 13The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.Verse 14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.Verse 15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.Verse 16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,Verse 17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”