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Isaiah, Chapter 21

¹ The^a Or burden oforacle concerning the^b Or sandy wastes, sea countrywilderness of the sea. As windstorms in the^c I.e. South countryNegev sweep on, It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.	1 Isa 13:1 Isa 13:20-22 Isa 14:23 Jer 51:42 Zec 9:14
² A harsh vision has been shown to me; The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media; I have made an end of all^d Lit her groaningthe groaning she has caused.	2 Psa 60:3 Isa 24:16 Isa 33:1 Isa 22:6 Jer 49:34
³ For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.	3 Isa 13:8 Isa 16:11 Psa 48:6 Isa 13:8 Isa 26:17 Th1 5:3
⁴ My^e Lit heart has wanderedmind reels,^f Lit shudderinghorror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.	4 Deu 28:67
⁵ They set the table, they^gspread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; “Rise up, captains, oil the shields,”	5 Jer 51:39 Jer 51:57 Dan 5:1-4
⁶ For thus the Lord says to me, “Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.	6 Ki2 9:17-20
⁷ “When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention.”	7 Isa 21:9
⁸ Then^h So DSS; M.T. he called like a lionthe lookout called, “O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.	8 Hab 2:1
⁹ “Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her godsⁱ Lit he has shattered to the earthare shattered on the ground.”	9 Isa 13:19 Isa 47:5 Isa 47:9 Isa 48:14 Jer 51:8 Rev 14:8 Rev 18:2 Isa 46:1 Jer 50:2 Jer 51:44
¹⁰ O my threshed people, and my^j Lit sonafflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I make known to you.	10 Jer 51:33 Mic 4:13
¹¹ The^k Or burdenoracle concerning^l So the Gr; Heb Dumah, silenceEdom. One keeps calling to me from Seir, “Watchman,^m Lit what is the time of the night?how far gone is the night? Watchman,ⁿ Lit what is the time of the night?how far gone is the night?”	11 Gen 25:14 Gen 32:3
¹² The watchman says, “Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again.”
¹³ The^o Or burdenoracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you^p Or will spendmust spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.	13 Jer 25:23 Jer 25:24 Jer 49:28 Gen 10:7 Eze 27:15
¹⁴ Bring water^q Lit to meetfor the thirsty, O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Meet the fugitive with bread.	14 Gen 25:15 Job 6:19
¹⁵ For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow And from the press of battle.	15 Isa 13:14 Isa 13:15 Isa 17:13
¹⁶ For thus the Lord said to me, “In a year, as^r Lit the years of a hirelinga hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate; ¹⁷ and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken.”	16 Isa 16:14 Psa 120:5 Sol 1:5 Isa 42:11 Isa 60:7 Eze 27:21 17 Isa 10:19 Num 23:19 Zec 1:6


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