dourh - 21

dourh@Isaiah:21:1 @ The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.

dourh@Isaiah:21:2 @ A 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.

dourh@Isaiah:21:3 @ Therefore 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.

dourh@Isaiah:21:4 @ My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

dourh@Isaiah:21:5 @ Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.

dourh@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.

dourh@Isaiah:21:7 @ And 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.

dourh@Isaiah:21:8 @ And 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.

dourh@Isaiah:21:9 @ Behold 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.

dourh@Isaiah:21:10 @ O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.

dourh@Isaiah:21:11 @ The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?

dourh@Isaiah:21:12 @ The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.

dourh@Isaiah:21:13 @ The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.

dourh@Isaiah:21:14 @ Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.

dourh@Isaiah:21:15 @ For 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.

dourh@Isaiah:21:16 @ For 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.

dourh@Isaiah:21:17 @ And 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.

Isaiah 21