Isaiah 21 (ASV Interlinear Bible)

1The

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Or, oracle concerning

burden of the wilderness of the sea.

As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.

2A

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Or, hard

grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof

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Or, will I make

have I made to cease.

3Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am

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Hebrew bent.

pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

4My heart

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Hebrew wandereth.

fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

5They prepare the table, they

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Or, spread the carpets

set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

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

7

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Or, and he saw . . . and he hearkened

and when he seeth

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Or, a chariot. Or, chariots

a troop,

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Or, a pair of horsemen

horsemen in pairs,

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Or, a chariot. Or, chariots

a troop of asses,

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Or, a chariot. Or, chariots

a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.

8And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward

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Or, every night

whole nights;

9and, behold, here

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Or, come chariots of men

cometh a troop of men,

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Or, a pair of horsemen

horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.

10O thou my threshing, and the

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Hebrew son.

grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

11The

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Or, oracle concerning

burden of Dumah.

One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman,

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Or, what hour

what of the night? Watchman,

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Or, what hour

what of the night?

12The watchman said, The morning

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Or, is come

cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye:

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Or, come ye again

turn ye, come.

13The

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Or, oracle

burden upon Arabia.

In the

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Or, thickets

forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.

14Unto him that

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Or, is thirsty bring ye

was thirsty they brought water;

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Or, as otherwise read, ye inhabitants of the land of Tema, meet

the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.

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

16For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;

17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.

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