Isaiah 21
About Isaiah Isaiah warns of judgment and promises comfort, a coming king, a suffering servant and a new creation.
1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.SelectedIsaiah 21:1Ask
2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.SelectedIsaiah 21:2Ask
3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.SelectedIsaiah 21:3Ask
4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.SelectedIsaiah 21:4Ask
5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.SelectedIsaiah 21:5Ask
6For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.SelectedIsaiah 21:6Ask
7And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:SelectedIsaiah 21:7Ask
8And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:SelectedIsaiah 21:8Ask
9And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.SelectedIsaiah 21:9Ask
10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.SelectedIsaiah 21:10Ask
11The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?SelectedIsaiah 21:11Ask
12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.SelectedIsaiah 21:12Ask
13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.SelectedIsaiah 21:13Ask
14The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.SelectedIsaiah 21:14Ask
15For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.SelectedIsaiah 21:15Ask
16For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:SelectedIsaiah 21:16Ask
17And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.SelectedIsaiah 21:17Ask
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