Isaiah:21 Parallel Bible - YLT ASV |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) | The American Standard Version Online Bible (ASV) |
| Isaiah 21:1 | The burden of the wilderness of the sea. `Like hurricanes in the south for passing through, From the wilderness it hath come, From a fearful land. | The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land. |
| Isaiah 21:2 | A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease. | A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. |
| Isaiah 21:3 | Therefore filled have been my loins [with] great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing. | Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see. |
| Isaiah 21:4 | Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me, | My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me. |
| Isaiah 21:5 | Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield, | They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield. |
| Isaiah 21:6 | For thus said the Lord unto me: `Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.` | For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he seeth: |
| Isaiah 21:7 | And he hath seen a chariot a couple of horsemen, The rider of an ass, the rider of a camel, And he hath given attention He hath increased attention! | and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed. |
| Isaiah 21:8 | And he crieth a lion, `On a watch-tower my lord, I am standing continually by day, And on my ward I am stationed whole nights. | And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights; |
| Isaiah 21:9 | And lo, this, the chariot of a man is coming, A couple of horsemen.` And he answereth and saith: `Fallen, fallen hath Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods He hath broken to the earth. | and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground. |
| Isaiah 21:10 | O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!` | O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. |
| Isaiah 21:11 | The burden of Dumah. Unto me is [one] calling from Seir `Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?` | The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? |
| Isaiah 21:12 | The watchman hath said, `Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.` | The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come. |
| Isaiah 21:13 | The burden on Arabia. In a forest in Arabia ye lodge, O travellers of Dedanim. | The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites. |
| Isaiah 21:14 | To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive. | Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread. |
| Isaiah 21:15 | For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle. | For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. |
| Isaiah 21:16 | For thus said the Lord unto me: `Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar. | For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail; |
| Isaiah 21:17 | And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath spoken!` | and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it. |
| | The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) | The American Standard Version Online Bible (ASV) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
