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Isaiah 21 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 21
The Fall of Babylon Proclaimed
The Fall of Babylon Predicted
1 The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea.
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​​As whirlwinds in the South pass through,
​​So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
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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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.
4 ​​My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me;
​​The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.
5 ​​Prepare the table,
​​Set a watchman in the tower,
​​Eat and drink.
​​Arise, you princes,
​​Anoint the shield!
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6 ​​For thus has the Lord said to me:
​​“Go, set a watchman,
​​Let him declare what he sees.”
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.
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.
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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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.
Proclamation Against Edom
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11 The burden against Dumah.
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​​He calls to me out of Seir,
​​“Watchman, what of the night?
​​Watchman, what of the night?”
12 ​​The watchman said,
​​“The morning comes, and also the night.
​​If you will inquire, inquire;
​​Return! Come back!”
Proclamation Against Arabia
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13 The burden against Arabia.
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​​In the forest in Arabia you will lodge,
​​O you traveling companies of Dedanites.
14 ​​O inhabitants of the land of Tema,
​​Bring water to him who is thirsty;
​​With their bread they met him who fled.
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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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; 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
Dead Sea Scrolls read Then the observer cried.
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