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== Yeshayahu (Book of Isaiah), Chapter 21 ==

<named id="1"/>1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on, it cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.

<named id="2"/>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.'

<named id="3"/>3 Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bent so that I cannot hear; I am affrighted so that I cannot see.

<named id="4"/>4 My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.

<named id="5"/>5 They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink--' Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'

<named id="6"/>6 For thus hath the L-rd said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!

<named id="7"/>7 And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.

<named id="8"/>8 And he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O L-rd, I stand continually in the daytime, and I am set in my ward all the nights.'

<named id="9"/>9 And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs. And he spoke and said: 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.'

<named id="10"/>10 O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor, that which I have heard from HaShem of hosts, the G-d of Israel, have I declared unto you.

<named id="11"/>11 The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'

<named id="12"/>12 The watchman said: 'The morning cometh, and also the night--if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'

<named id="13"/>13 The burden upon Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.

<named id="14"/>14 Unto him that is thirsty bring ye water! The inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitive with his bread.

<named id="15"/>15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

<named id="16"/>16 For thus hath the L-rd said unto me: 'Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail;

<named id="17"/>17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished; for HaShem, the G-d of Israel, hath spoken it.'

== See also ==
* [[Yeshayahu 20|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Yeshayahu 21 Commentaries]]
* [[Yeshayahu 22|Next Chapter]]

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