Isaiah:21:1-12

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* The burden of the wilderness of the sea . As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on , it cometh from the wilderness , from a dreadful land . * A 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 .' * Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion ; pangs have taken hold upon me , as the pangs of a woman in travail ; I am bent so that I cannot hear ; I am affrighted so that I cannot see . * My heart is bewildered , terror hath overwhelmed me ; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling . * They prepare the table , they light the lamps , they eat , they drink --'Rise up , ye princes , anoint the shield .' * For thus hath the Lord said unto me : Go , set a watchman ; let him declare what he seeth ! * And when he seeth a troop , horsemen by pairs , a troop of asses , a troop of camels , he shall hearken diligently with much heed . * And he cried as a lion : 'Upon the watch-tower , O Lord , I stand continually in the daytime , and I am set in my ward all the nights .' * And , behold , there came a troop of men , horsemen by pairs . And he spoke and said : 'Fallen , fallen is Babylon ; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground .' * O thou my threshing , and the winnowing of my floor , that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts , the God of Israel , have I declared unto you . * The burden of Dumah . One calleth unto me out of Seir : 'Watchman , what of the night ? Watchman , what of the night ?' * The watchman said : 'The morning cometh , and also the night--if ye will inquire , inquire ye ; return , come .'

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