Isaiah · American Standard Version (1901)
Isaiah 21 American Standard Version (1901)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
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1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
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2 A 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 have I made to cease.
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3 Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
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4 My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
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5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.
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6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth:
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7 and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.
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8 And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;
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9 and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, 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.
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10 O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
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11 The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
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12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.
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13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.
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14 Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.
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15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
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16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;
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17 and 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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Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 14:23; Isaiah 13:1; Jeremiah 51:42; Zechariah 9:14; Isaiah 17:1
- 2 Jeremiah 49:34; Isaiah 33:1; Isaiah 24:16; Psalm 60:3; Revelation 13:10
- 3 Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 26:17; Psalm 48:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Jeremiah 48:41
- 4 Luke 21:34–36; Esther 5:12; 2 Samuel 13:28–29; Esther 7:6–10; Deuteronomy 28:67
- 5 Jeremiah 51:11; Jeremiah 51:39; Jeremiah 51:57; Daniel 5:1–5; Isaiah 45:1–3
- 6 Habakkuk 2:1–2; Ezekiel 33:2–7; Ezekiel 3:17; 2 Kings 9:17–20; Jeremiah 51:12–13
- 7 Isaiah 21:9; Hebrews 2:1; Isaiah 37:24
- 8 Habakkuk 2:1–2; Psalm 127:1; Isaiah 56:10; 1 Peter 5:8; Jeremiah 50:44
- 9 Revelation 18:2; Jeremiah 51:8; Revelation 14:8; Jeremiah 51:44; Isaiah 13:19
- 10 Jeremiah 51:33; Micah 4:13; Ezekiel 3:17–19; Isaiah 41:15–16; Matthew 3:12
- 11 Genesis 25:14; Obadiah 1–16; Amos 1:6; Joel 3:19; 1 Chronicles 1:30
- 12 Acts 17:30–32; Acts 2:37–38; Ezekiel 14:1–6; Ezekiel 7:5–7; Acts 17:19–20
- 13 Jeremiah 25:23–24; 1 Chronicles 1:32; Genesis 25:3; Ezekiel 27:15; Jeremiah 49:28–33
- 14 Job 6:19; Genesis 25:15; Romans 12:20; Proverbs 25:21; Judges 8:4–8
- 15 Job 6:19–20; Isaiah 13:14
- 16 Isaiah 16:14; Psalm 120:5; Isaiah 60:7; Song of Songs 1:5; Jeremiah 49:28
- 17 Numbers 23:19; Zechariah 1:6; Isaiah 1:20; Matthew 24:35; Isaiah 17:4–5
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences