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Isaiah 21
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The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass
through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. |
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| 21:2
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth
treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media;
all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. |
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| 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as
the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it;
I was dismayed at the seeing of it. |
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"Therefore are my loins filled with pain ... I was dismayed at the seeing of it."
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| 21:4
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath
he turned into fear unto me. |
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| 21:5
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes,
and anoint the shield. |
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| 21:6
For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare
what he seeth. |
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| 21:7
And 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: |
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| 21:8
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in
the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: |
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| 21:9
And, behold, here cometh 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 hath broken unto the ground. |
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| 21:10
O 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. |
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| 21:11
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the
night? Watchman, what of the night? |
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| 21:12
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will
enquire, enquire ye: return, come. |
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| 21:13
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye
travelling companies of Dedanim. |
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| 21:14
The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty,
they prevented with their bread him that fled. |
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| 21:15
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent
bow, and from the grievousness of war. |
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| 21:16
For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years
of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: |
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| 21:17
And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children
of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
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