Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
Quotes around Verses      |
 Isa 21:1 |
The [fn]oracle concerning the [fn]wilderness of the sea. As windstorms in the [fn]Negev sweep on, It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land. |
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Isa 21:2 |
A harsh vision has been shown to me; The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media; I have made an end of all [fn]the groaning she has caused. |
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Isa 21:3 |
For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see. |
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Isa 21:4 |
My [fn]mind reels, [fn]horror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. |
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Isa 21:5 |
They set the table, they [fn]spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; "Rise up, captains, oil the shields," |
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Isa 21:6 |
For thus the Lord says to me, "Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees. |
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Isa 21:7 |
"When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention." |
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Isa 21:8 |
Then [fn]the lookout called, "O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post. |
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Isa 21:9 |
"Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs." And one said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods [fn]are shattered on the ground." |
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Isa 21:10 |
O my threshed people, and my [fn]afflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I make known to you. |
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Isa 21:11 |
The [fn]oracle concerning [fn]Edom. One keeps calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, [fn]how far gone is the night? Watchman, [fn]how far gone is the night?" |
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Isa 21:12 |
The watchman says, "Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again." |
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Isa 21:13 |
The [fn]oracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you [fn]must spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites. |
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Isa 21:14 |
Bring water [fn]for the thirsty, O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Meet the fugitive with bread. |
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Isa 21:15 |
For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow And from the press of battle. |
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Isa 21:16 |
For thus the Lord said to me, "In a year, as [fn]a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate; |
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Isa 21:17 |
and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken." |
NASB Footnotes:
- (21:1) Or, burden of
- (21:1) Or, sandy wastes, sea country
- (21:1) I.e. South country
- (21:2) Literally: her groaning
- (21:4) Literally: heart has wandered
- (21:4) Literally: shuddering
- (21:5) Or, spread out the rugs or possibly they arranged the seating
- (21:8) So DSS; M.T. he called like a lion
- (21:9) Literally: he has shattered to the earth
- (21:10) Literally: son
- (21:11) Or, burden
- (21:11) So the Gr; Heb Dumah, silence
- (21:11) Literally: what is the time of the night?
- (21:13) Or, burden
- (21:13) Or, will spend
- (21:14) Literally: to meet
- (21:16) Literally: the years of a hireling
