King James Version
Isaiah • Chapter 21
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The burden of the wilderness by the sea, like storms in the Negev, shall come from the wilderness, from the terrifying land.
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A hard vision has been told to me: the betrayer betrays, and the plunderer plunders upon Elam; I have destroyed all its groves.
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Therefore, my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold of me like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am distressed when I hear; I am afraid when I see.
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My heart wandered; I was entangled in anxiety, and set for me for fear.
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Prepare the table, cover the surface, eat and drink. Rise, you princes, anoint the shield.
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For so says my Lord: Go, set the watchman who will see and announce.
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And she saw a chariot of two horses, a chariot of a donkey, a chariot of a camel, and she listened, a great listening.
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And a lion called upon the lookout; I am always standing by day, and I am stationed at my watch all the nights.
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And behold, a chariot of a man, a pair of horses, came, and he answered and said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon, and all the idols of her gods are shattered to the ground."
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I have told you what I heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
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The burden of Dumah: He calls to me from Seir, "Watcher, what of the night? Watcher, what of the night?"
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The keeper said, "You are morning and also night; if you demand, return to you."
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The burden in the evening, in the forest, in the dusk, we will lodge the paths of the needy.
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To call the thirsty, water will come to the inhabitants of the land of Teima, with bread they hastened to wander.
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For from the faces of swords they have fled, from the face of a drawn sword and from the face of a bent bow and from the face of the heaviness of battle.
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For thus says my Lord: In yet another year, like the two hired men, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
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And the remnant of the number of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be diminished, for the LORD God of Israel has spoken.