jps - Isaiah:21:1-12

jps@Isaiah:21:1 @ The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on, it cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.

jps@Isaiah:21:2 @ 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.'

jps@Isaiah:21:3 @ 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.

jps@Isaiah:21:4 @ My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.

jps@Isaiah:21:5 @ They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink--'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'

jps@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!

jps@Isaiah:21:7 @ And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.

jps@Isaiah:21:8 @ 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.'

jps@Isaiah:21:9 @ 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.'

jps@Isaiah:21:10 @ 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.

jps@Isaiah:21:11 @ The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'

jps@Isaiah:21:12 @ The watchman said: 'The morning cometh, and also the night--if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'