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| The Book of Isaiah 21 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:1 | The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:2 | A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully : and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:3 | Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:4 | My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:5 | Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:6 | For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:7 | And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:8 | And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:9 | Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:10 | O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:11 | The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night? | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:12 | The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:13 | The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:14 | Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:15 | For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:16 | For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away. | |||||||||||||||
| Isaiah 21:17 | And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it. | |||||||||||||||
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