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Isaiah 21 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Isa 21:1The Vision of the Desert. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, even from such a land,
Isa 21:2 so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.
Isa 21:3Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see.
Isa 21:4My heart wanders, and transgression [fn]overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.
Isa 21:5Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare your shields.
Isa 21:6For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.
Isa 21:7And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.
Isa 21:8Hearken with great attention, and call thou Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all the night:
Isa 21:9and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.
Isa 21:10Hear, ye that are left, and ye that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts which the God of Israel has declared to us.
Isa 21:11The Vision of Idumea. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks.
Isa 21:12I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest enquire, enquire, and dwell by me.
Isa 21:13Thou mayest lodge in the forest [fn]in the evening, or in the way of Dædan.
Isa 21:14Ye that dwell in the country of Thæman, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;
Isa 21:15meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.
Isa 21:16For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of an hireling, and the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail:
Isa 21:17and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.
BES Footnotes
Lit. baptizes.
Heb. of Arabia.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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