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ISAIAH
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Chapter 21
Isai NHEB 21:1  The oracle of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negev sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
Isai NHEB 21:2  A 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.
Isai NHEB 21:3  Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.
Isai NHEB 21:4  My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
Isai NHEB 21:5  They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
Isai NHEB 21:6  For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
Isai NHEB 21:7  When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness."
Isai NHEB 21:8  He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
Isai NHEB 21:9  Behold, 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.
Isai NHEB 21:10  You are 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.
Isai NHEB 21:11  The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"
Isai NHEB 21:12  The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
Isai NHEB 21:13  The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.
Isai NHEB 21:14  They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
Isai NHEB 21:15  For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
Isai NHEB 21:16  For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
Isai NHEB 21:17  and 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."