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Chapter
21
- 21:1
- 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.
- 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.
- 21:3
- 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.
- 21:4
- My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of
my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
- 21:5
- Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise,
ye princes, and anoint the shield.
- 21:6
- For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman,
let him declare what he seeth.
- 21:7
- 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:
- 21:8
- 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:
- 21:9
- 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.
- 21:10
- 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.
- 21:11
- The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
- 21:12
- The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night:
if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
- 21:13
- The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
- 21:14
- The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him
that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
- 21:15
- For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and
from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
- 21:16
- 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:
- 21:17
- 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.
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