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Isaiah 21 (AMP)

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¹ THE MOURNFUL, inspired prediction (a burden to be lifted up) concerning the Desert of the Sea : As whirlwinds in the South (the Negeb) sweep through, so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. ² A hard and grievous vision is declared to me: the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All the sighing I will cause to cease . ³ Therefore are my loins filled with anguish, pangs have seized me like the pangs of a woman in childbirth; I am bent and pained so that I cannot hear, I am dismayed so that I cannot see. ⁴ My mind reels and wanders, horror terrifies me. The twilight I looked forward to with pleasure has been turned into fear and trembling for me. ⁵ They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, set the watchers , they eat, they drink. Arise, you princes, and oil your shields ! ⁶ For thus has the Lord said to me: Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees. ⁷ And when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, and a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently, very diligently. ⁸ And cried like a lion, O Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my station every night. ⁹ And see! Here comes a troop of men and chariots, horsemen in pairs! And he tells : Babylon has fallen, has fallen! And all the graven images of her gods lie shattered on the ground ! ¹⁰ O you my threshed and winnowed ones , that which I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have announced to you ! ¹¹ The mournful, inspired prediction (a burden to be lifted up) concerning Dumah (Edom): One calls to me from Seir (Edom), Watchman, what of the night? Guardian, what of the night? ¹² The watchman said, The morning comes, but also the night. if you will inquire , inquire; return, come again. ¹³ The mournful, inspired prediction (a burden to be lifted up) concerning Arabia: In the forests and thickets of Arabia you shall lodge, O you caravans of Dedanites . ¹⁴ To the thirsty bring water, O inhabitants of the land of Tema ; meet the fugitive with bread for him. ¹⁵ For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war . ¹⁶ For the Lord has said this to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling , all the glory of Kedar will fail. ¹⁷ And the remainder of the number of archers and their bows, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be diminished and few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken it.