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Chapter 21 |
| 1 | The burden of
the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh
from the desert, from a terrible land. |
| 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. |
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| Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken
hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the
hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. |
| 4 | My heart
panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into
fear unto me. |
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5 | Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat,
drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. |
| 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 he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and
a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: |
| 8 |
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the
daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: |
| 9 | And, behold,
here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and
said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he
hath broken unto the ground. |
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10 | O my threshing, and the corn of my
floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I
declared unto you. |
| 11 | The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of
Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? |
| 12 | The
watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire,
enquire ye: return, come. |
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13 | The burden upon Arabia. In the forest
in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. |
| 14 | The
inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they
prevented with their bread him that fled. |
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15 | For they fled from the
swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness
of war. |
| 16
| For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year,
according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall
fail: |
| 17 |
And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of
the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath
spoken it. |
