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Isaiah 21 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible 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 A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.
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 pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.
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 failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
5 Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
6 For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
7 And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.
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 And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.
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 Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto 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 O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.
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 burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?
11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
12 The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.
12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
13 The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.
13 The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.
14 Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.
14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
15 For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.
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 saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.
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 residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath 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. 1 Isaiah 14:23; Isaiah 13:1; Jeremiah 51:42; Zechariah 9:14; Isaiah 17:1
  2. 2 Jeremiah 49:34; Isaiah 33:1; Isaiah 24:16; Psalm 60:3; Revelation 13:10
  3. 3 Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 26:17; Psalm 48:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Jeremiah 48:41
  4. 4 Luke 21:34–36; Esther 5:12; 2 Samuel 13:28–29; Esther 7:6–10; Deuteronomy 28:67
  5. 5 Jeremiah 51:11; Jeremiah 51:39; Jeremiah 51:57; Daniel 5:1–5; Isaiah 45:1–3
  6. 6 Habakkuk 2:1–2; Ezekiel 33:2–7; Ezekiel 3:17; 2 Kings 9:17–20; Jeremiah 51:12–13
  7. 7 Isaiah 21:9; Hebrews 2:1; Isaiah 37:24
  8. 8 Habakkuk 2:1–2; Psalm 127:1; Isaiah 56:10; 1 Peter 5:8; Jeremiah 50:44
  9. 9 Revelation 18:2; Jeremiah 51:8; Revelation 14:8; Jeremiah 51:44; Isaiah 13:19
  10. 10 Jeremiah 51:33; Micah 4:13; Ezekiel 3:17–19; Isaiah 41:15–16; Matthew 3:12
  11. 11 Genesis 25:14; Obadiah 1–16; Amos 1:6; Joel 3:19; 1 Chronicles 1:30
  12. 12 Acts 17:30–32; Acts 2:37–38; Ezekiel 14:1–6; Ezekiel 7:5–7; Acts 17:19–20
  13. 13 Jeremiah 25:23–24; 1 Chronicles 1:32; Genesis 25:3; Ezekiel 27:15; Jeremiah 49:28–33
  14. 14 Job 6:19; Genesis 25:15; Romans 12:20; Proverbs 25:21; Judges 8:4–8
  15. 15 Job 6:19–20; Isaiah 13:14
  16. 16 Isaiah 16:14; Psalm 120:5; Isaiah 60:7; Song of Songs 1:5; Jeremiah 49:28
  17. 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