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| The Book of Isaiah 21 |
| The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Isaiah 21:4 | Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me, |
| Isaiah 21:5 | Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield, |
| Isaiah 21:6 | For thus said the Lord unto me: `Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.` |
| 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! |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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!` |
| Isaiah 21:11 | The burden of Dumah. Unto me is [one] calling from 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.` |
| Isaiah 21:13 | The burden on Arabia. In a forest in Arabia ye lodge, O travellers of Dedanim. |
| Isaiah 21:14 | To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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!` |
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