Isaiah 21:10–17
10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.↗
11The burden of Dumah. One 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 you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”↗
13The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.↗
14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.↗
15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.↗
16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,↗
17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”↗
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