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Isaiah 21 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:1 - The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:2 - A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:3 - Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:4 - My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:5 - They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6 - For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:7 - and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:8 - And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:9 - and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:10 - O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

Oracles about Edom and Arabia

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:11 - The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:12 - The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:13 - The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:14 - Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:15 - For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 - For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:17 - and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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