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          DASV: Isaiah 21    

1 An oracle about the Wilderness by the Sea.
      Like whirlwinds in the Negev sweep through,
     it comes from the wilderness,
           from a terrifying land.
2 A harsh vision was told to me;
     the treacherous man deals treacherously,
           and the destroyer destroys.
     Go up, O Elam;
          lay siege, O Media;
      all the sighing she has caused
          I will bring to an end.
3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
     pangs have seized hold of me,
           like the pangs of a woman in labor.
      I am so bewildered by what I hear,
          troubled by what I see.
4 My heart flutters,
           horror has frightened me;
      the twilight that I desired has brought me only trembling.
5 They prepare the table,
      they lay the carpet,
      they eat, they drink.
     Get up, you commanders,
           oil the shields.
6 For this is what the Lord says to me,
     "Go, post a lookout,
           let him report what he observes.
7 When he sees chariots
     with pairs of horses,
           riders on donkeys,
     riders on camels,
           let him be vigilant, very vigilant.
8 Then he cried out,
     "O Lord, I stand constantly on the watchtower in the day,
           and am stationed at my post every night.
9 Look, here comes a man on a chariot with a pair of horses."
     He announces,
           "Babylon is fallen, fallen;
           and all the carved images of her gods
                are smashed into the ground."
10 O my people, threshed and beaten on my threshing floor!
     I have reported to you what I have heard
     from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel.

11 An oracle about Dumah.
     Someone calls to me from Seir,
           "Watchman, what of the night?
           Watchman, what of the night?"
12 The watchman replied,
     "The morning is coming, then also the night.
     If you want to ask, then ask; come back again."

13 An oracle about Arabia.
     In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge,
           O caravans of Dedanites.
14 Bring water for the thirsty;
     O inhabitants of the land of Tema
     meet the fugitives with bread.
15 For they have fled from the swords,
     from the drawn sword,
     from the bent bow,
     and from the pressure of the battle.

16 For this is what the Lord said to me, "Within a year,
according to the years counted by a hired hand,
all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
17 The surviving archers, and warriors of Kedar, will be
few," for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

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