| Isa. 21:1 |
The burden concerning the wilderness of the sea: Like storm winds / In the Negev passing through, / It comes from the wilderness / From an awesome land. |
| Isa. 21:2 |
A harsh vision / Has been announced to me; / The unfaithful one deals unfaithfully, / And the destroyer destroys. / Go up, Elam; / Lay siege, Media; / I have put an end / To all her groaning. |
| Isa. 21:3 |
Therefore my loins / Are full of anguish; / Pangs have taken hold of me / Like the pangs of a woman in labor. / I am bent over at the hearing [of it;] / I am terrified at the seeing [of it.] |
| Isa. 21:4 |
My heart reels; / Shuddering overwhelms me. / The twilight that I love / Has become a [source of ] trembling to me. |
| Isa. 21:5 |
Setting the table! / Spreading out the rug! / Eating! Drinking! / Rise, princes; / Oil the shields. |
| Isa. 21:6 |
For thus says / The Lord to me, / Go, set a watchman; / Let him report what he sees. |
| Isa. 21:7 |
And he saw riders, / A team of horsemen; / Riders of donkeys, / Riders of camels; / And he attends with attention, / With much attention. |
| Isa. 21:8 |
And he calls out [like] a lion: / On the watchtower, Lord, / I stand continually by day; / At my guardpost / I am stationed / Every night. |
| Isa. 21:9 |
And now there come / Riding men, / A team of horsemen. / And one answers and says, / Fallen, fallen is Babylon! / And all the idols of her gods / Has He shattered to the ground. |
| Isa. 21:10 |
My threshed ones, / And the son of the threshing floor! / What I have heard / From Jehovah of hosts, / The God of Israel, / I have declared to you. |
| Isa. 21:11 |
The burden concerning Dumah: / Someone is calling to me from Seir: / Guard, what [remains] of the night? / Guard, what [remains] of the night? |
| Isa. 21:12 |
The guard says, / Morning is coming, / But so also is night; / If you will ask, ask; / Return, come. |
| Isa. 21:13 |
The burden against Arabia: / In the thicket of Arabia you must spend the night, / You nomad clans of the Dedanim. |
| Isa. 21:14 |
They bring water / To meet the thirsty; / The inhabitants of the land of Tema / Meet with bread those who flee; |
| Isa. 21:15 |
For they flee from swords-- / From the drawn sword, / From the bent bow, / And from the harshness of battle. |
| Isa. 21:16 |
For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year, like a wage worker's year, all the glory of Kedar will end, |
| Isa. 21:17 |
And the remainder of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for Jehovah the God of Israel has spoken. |