noyes - Isaiah:21

noyes@Isaiah:21:1 @ The prophecy concerning the desert of the sea. As storms which rush along through the south, So it cometh from the desert, From the terrible land.

noyes@Isaiah:21:2 @ A grievous vision was revealed to me; The plunderer plundereth, and the destroyer destroyeth. "Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All sighing do I make to cease."

noyes@Isaiah:21:3 @ Therefore are my loins full of pain; Pangs have seized me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; For convulsions I cannot hear; For anguish I cannot see.

noyes@Isaiah:21:4 @ My heart panteth, Terror hath seized upon me; The evening of my desire is changed into horror.

noyes@Isaiah:21:5 @ The table is prepared; the watch is set; They eat; they drink; "Arise, ye princes! Anoint the shield!"

noyes@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus said the Lord unto me: "Go, set a watchman, Who shall declare what he seeth."

noyes@Isaiah:21:7 @ And he saw a troop, horsemen in pairs, Riders on asses, and riders on camels, And he watched with the utmost heed.

noyes@Isaiah:21:8 @ Then he cried like a lion: "My Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, And keep my post all the night;

noyes@Isaiah:21:9 @ And behold, there cometh a troop, Horsemen in pairs." Again also he lifted up his voice, and said: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods are cast broken to the ground."

noyes@Isaiah:21:10 @ O my threshing, and the corn of my floor! What I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, That have I declared to you.

noyes@Isaiah:21:11 @ The prophecy concerning Dumah. A voice came to me from Seir: "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"

noyes@Isaiah:21:12 @ The watchman saith: "Morning cometh, and also night. If ye will inquire, inquire! Return, come!"

noyes@Isaiah:21:13 @ The prophecy against the Arabians. In the thickets of Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedan!

noyes@Isaiah:21:14 @ The inhabitants of the land of Tema Bring water to the thirsty; They come to meet the fugitive with bread.

noyes@Isaiah:21:15 @ For they flee from swords, From the drawn sword, And from the bent bow, And from the fury of war.

noyes@Isaiah:21:16 @ For thus saith the Lord to me: Within one year, according to the years of a hireling, Shall all the glory of Kedar be consumed.

noyes@Isaiah:21:17 @ The remainder of the mighty bowmen of the sons of Kedar shall be diminished; For Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath said it.