Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Isa 21:1 |
The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea. As whirlwinds in the South pass through, [So] it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. |
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Isa 21:2 |
A 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. |
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Isa 21:3 |
Therefore 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]. |
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Isa 21:4 |
My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me; The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me. |
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Isa 21:5 |
Prepare the table, Set a watchman in the tower, Eat and drink. Arise, you princes, Anoint the shield! |
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Isa 21:6 |
For thus has the Lord said to me: "Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees." |
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Isa 21:7 |
And 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. |
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Isa 21:8 |
Then he cried, "A lion, [fn] my Lord! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night. |
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Isa 21:9 |
And 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." |
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Isa 21:10 |
Oh, 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. |
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Isa 21:11 |
The burden against Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" |
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Isa 21:12 |
The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; Return! Come back!" |
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Isa 21:13 |
The burden against Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites. |
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Isa 21:14 |
O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Bring water to him who is thirsty; With their bread they met him who fled. |
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Isa 21:15 |
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, From the bent bow, and from the distress of war. |
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Isa 21:16 |
For 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; |
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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]." |
NKJV Footnotes:
- (21:8) Dead Sea Scrolls read Then the observer cried.
