Isaiah 21:1–9
1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.↗
2A 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.↗
3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.↗
4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.↗
5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!↗
6For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.↗
7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”↗
8He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.↗
9Behold, 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.↗
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