| 章 |
| 21:1 |
The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As windstorms in the Negev sweep on, It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.
|
| 21:2 |
A harsh vision has been shown to me; The treacherous one still deals treacherously, [and] the destroyer still destroys. Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media; I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused.
|
| 21:3 |
For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.
|
| 21:4 |
My mind reels, horror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.
|
| 21:5 |
They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; "Rise up, captains, oil the shields,"
|
| 21:6 |
For thus the Lord says to me, "Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.
|
| 21:7 |
"When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention."
|
| 21:8 |
Then the lookout called, "O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.
|
| 21:9 |
"Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs." And one answered and said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground."
|
| 21:10 |
O my threshed [people], and my afflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I make known to you.
|
| 21:11 |
The oracle concerning Edom. One keeps calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, how far gone is the night? Watchman, how far gone is the night?"
|
| 21:12 |
The watchman says, "Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again."
|
| 21:13 |
The oracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.
|
| 21:14 |
Bring water for the thirsty, O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Meet the fugitive with bread.
|
| 21:15 |
For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, And from the press of battle.
|
| 21:16 |
For thus the Lord said to me, "In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate;
|
| 21:17 |
and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken."
|
