Isaias 21

1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.● 2A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.● 3Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.● 4My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.● 5Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.● 6For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.● 7And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.● 8And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.● 9Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.● 10O my thrashing, and the children of my floor, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.● 11The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? watchman, what of the night?● 12The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.● 13The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.● 14Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.● 15For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.● 16For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.● 17And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.●