English Bible
Isaiah 21
Big screen- 1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
- 2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
- 3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that labors: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
- 4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure has he turned into fear unto me.
- 5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, all of you princes, and anoint the shield.
- 6For thus has the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.
- 7And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
- 8And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
- 9And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken unto the ground.
- 10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
- 11The burden of Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
- 12The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if all of you will enquire, enquire all of you: return, come.
- 13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall all of you lodge, O all of you travelling companies of Dedanim.
- 14The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
- 15For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
- 16For thus has the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a worker, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
- 17And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.