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title: Isaiah 21
slug: kjv/isaiah-21
createdAt: 2024-08-21T18:54:39.637Z
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**1 **The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; *so* it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

**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.

**3 **Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing *of it*; I was dismayed at the seeing *of it*.

**4 **My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

**5 **Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, *and* anoint the shield.

**6 **For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

**7 **And he saw a chariot *with* a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, *and* a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

**8 **And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

**9 **And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, *with* a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

**10 **O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

**11 **The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

**12 **The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.

**13 **The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

**14 **The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

**15 **For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

**16 **For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: **17 **And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken *it*.