Isaiah 21 Background Information with Maps and Images (Picture Study Bible - Isaiah) Free Bible Online

1 - The burden of the wilderness of the sea.As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

2 - A 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.

3 - Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.

4 - My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

5 - They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

6 - For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

7 - When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness."

8 - He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

9 - Behold, 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.

10 - You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

11 - The burden of Dumah.One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"

12 - The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."

13 - The burden on Arabia.In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.