Isaiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Isaiah 21 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 The vision of the desert. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, [even] from such a land,
1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
2 [so] a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.
2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hastened that I might not see.
3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.
4 My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.
4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
5 Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare [your] shields.
5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
6 For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.
6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
7 And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.
7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
8 Hearken with great attention, and call thou Urias to the watchtower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all the night:
8 He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
9 and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.
9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
10 Hear, ye that are left, and ye that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts [which] the God of Israel has declared to us.
10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
11 The vision of Edom. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks.
11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
12 I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest inquire, inquire, and dwell by me.
12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
13 Thou mayest lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Dedan.
13 The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.
14 Ye that dwell in the country of Tema, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;
14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
15 meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.
15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
16 For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of a hireling, [and] the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail:
16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
17 and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken [it].
17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
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