Isaiah 21:1-17 The vision of the Desert. As, when a whirlwind having passed through a desert, is rushing out of a desert, the sight from the land is terrible;

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ The vision of the Desert. As, when a whirlwind having passed through a desert, is rushing out of a desert, the sight from the land is terrible; ² this vision being also dreadful, was revealed to me. The treacherous dealeth treacherously; the transgressor transgresseth; the Elamites are upon me; and the elders of the Persians are coming against me. Am I now to groan and comfort myself? ³ For this cause my loins are filled with fainting; pangs have seized me like a woman in travail. I did wrong not to hear; I shuddered so that I could not see. ⁴ My heart is bewildered, transgression overwhelmeth me. My soul is on the brink of despair. ⁵ Prepare the table. Eat, drink ye chiefs. Having arisen prepare shields. ⁶ Because thus the Lord said to me, "Go set a watchman for thyself and proclaim what thou seest." ⁷ Thereupon I beheld a chariot with two riders, and a rider on an ass and a rider on a camel. ⁸ "Listen with the utmost attention, "said the Lord, "and call A fair breeze to the watch tower" I have kept my station all the day long, and by the camp I have stood the whole night; ⁹ and behold here cometh a man riding in a chariot, and addressing me he said, "It is fallen! Babylon is fallen! and all her images, and all the works of her hands are dashed on the ground." ¹⁰ Hear this ye who have been forsaken! and ye, who have been sorely grieved, hear what I have heard from the Lord of Hosts: what the God of Israel hath announced to us. ¹¹ The vision concerning Idumea. TO me one calleth from Seir, "Guard ye the fortifications, " ¹² I keep watch morning and night. If thou wouldst inquire; inquire and dwell near me. ¹³ Thou mayst go to rest in the western forest, or in the way to Dedan. ¹⁴ inhabitants of the country of Thaiman, bring out water to meet the thirsty; ¹⁵ meet with bread them who are fleeing, because of the multitude of the slain; and because of the multitude of dispersed: and because of the multitude of swords; and because of the multitude of bended bows; and because of the multitude of them who have fallen in battle. ¹⁶ For thus hath the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the year of an hireling, the glory of the children of Kedar shall fail; ¹⁷ and the remnant of the mighty bowmen of Kedar shall be small. For the Lord God of Israel hath spoken."