Isaiah 21 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The Fall of Babylon Proclaimed

The Fall of Babylon Predicted

Isa 21:1The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea.

As whirlwinds in the South pass through,
So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

Isa 21:2

Isa 21:2A distressing vision is declared to me;
The treacherous dealer deals treacherously,
And the plunderer plunders.
Go up, O Elam!
Besiege, O Media!
All its sighing I have made to cease.

Isa 21:3

Isa 21:3Therefore my loins are filled with pain;
Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor.
I was distressed when I heard it;
I was dismayed when I saw it.

Isa 21:4

Isa 21:4My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me;
The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.

Isa 21:5

Isa 21:5Prepare the table,
Set a watchman in the tower,
Eat and drink.
Arise, you princes,
Anoint the shield!

Isa 21:6

Isa 21:6For thus has the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman,
Let him declare what he sees.”

Isa 21:7

Isa 21:7And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen,
A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels,
And he listened earnestly with great care.

Isa 21:8

Isa 21:8Then he cried, “A lion,[fn] my Lord!
I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime;
I have sat at my post every night.

Isa 21:9

Isa 21:9And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!”
Then he answered and said,
“Babylon is fallen, is fallen!
And all the carved images of her gods
He has broken to the ground.”

Isa 21:10

Isa 21:10Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor!
That which I have heard from the LORD of hosts,
The God of Israel,
I have declared to you.

Proclamation Against Edom

Isa 21:11

Isa 21:11The burden against Dumah.

He calls to me out of Seir,
“Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?”

Isa 21:12

Isa 21:12The watchman said,
“The morning comes, and also the night.
If you will inquire, inquire;
Return! Come back!”

Proclamation Against Arabia

Isa 21:13

Isa 21:13The burden against Arabia.

In the forest in Arabia you will lodge,
O you traveling companies of Dedanites.

Isa 21:14

Isa 21:14O inhabitants of the land of Tema,
Bring water to him who is thirsty;
With their bread they met him who fled.

Isa 21:15

Isa 21:15For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword,
From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.

Isa 21:16

Isa 21:16For thus the LORD has said to me: “Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of Kedar will fail;

Isa 21:17

Isa 21:17“and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.”

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NKJV Footnotes

(21:8)

Dead Sea Scrolls read Then the observer cried.

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