drb - Isaiah:21:1-12

drb@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.

drb@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.

drb@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.

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

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

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

drb@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.

drb@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.

drb@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.

drb@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.

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

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