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ISAIAH
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Chapter 21
Isai ACV 21:1  The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
Isai ACV 21:2  A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam. Besiege, O Media, all the sighing of it I have made to cease.
Isai ACV 21:3  Therefore my loins are filled with anguish. Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Isai ACV 21:4  My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
Isai ACV 21:5  They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, ye rulers, anoint the shield.
Isai ACV 21:6  For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
Isai ACV 21:7  and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.
Isai ACV 21:8  And he cried out as a lion, O Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and am set in my ward whole nights,
Isai ACV 21:9  and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon. And all the graven images of her gods are broken to the ground.
Isai ACV 21:10  O my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
Isai ACV 21:11  The burden of Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Isai ACV 21:12  The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night. If ye will inquire, inquire ye; turn ye back, come.
Isai ACV 21:13  The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia ye shall lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.
Isai ACV 21:14  To him who was thirsty they brought water. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
Isai ACV 21:15  For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Isai ACV 21:16  For thus the Lord has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail.
Isai ACV 21:17  And the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be few. For Jehovah, the God of Israel, has spoken it.