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Isaiah 21 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Isa 21:1

Isa 21:1The 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.

Isa 21:2

Isa 21:2A 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.

Isa 21:3

Isa 21:3Therefore 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.

Isa 21:4

Isa 21:4Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,

Isa 21:5

Isa 21:5Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,

Isa 21:6

Isa 21:6For thus said the Lord unto me: 'Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.'

Isa 21:7

Isa 21:7And 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!

Isa 21:8

Isa 21:8And 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.

Isa 21:9

Isa 21:9And 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.

Isa 21:10

Isa 21:10O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!'

Oracles about Edom and Arabia

Isa 21:11

Isa 21:11The burden of Dumah. Unto me is one calling from Seir 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'

Isa 21:12

Isa 21:12The watchman hath said, 'Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.'

Isa 21:13

Isa 21:13The burden on Arabia. In a forest in Arabia ye lodge, O travellers of Dedanim.

Isa 21:14

Isa 21:14To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive.

Isa 21:15

Isa 21:15For 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.

Isa 21:16

Isa 21:16For thus said the Lord unto me: 'Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.

Isa 21:17

Isa 21:17And 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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