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# Isaiah 21 (New King James Version)
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The Fall of Babylon Proclaimed
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##### Chapter 21
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###### 1 The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea.
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As whirlwinds in the South pass through,
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_So_ it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
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###### 2 A distressing vision is declared to me;
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The treacherous dealer deals treacherously,
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And the plunderer plunders.
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Go up, O Elam!
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Besiege, O Media!
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All its sighing I have made to cease.
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###### 3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain;
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Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor.
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I was distressed when _I_ heard _it;_
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I was dismayed when _I_ saw _it._
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###### 4 My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me;
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The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.
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###### 5 Prepare the table,
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Set a watchman in the tower,
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Eat and drink.
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Arise, you princes,
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Anoint the shield!
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###### 6 For thus has the Lord said to me:
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"Go, set a watchman,
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Let him declare what he sees."
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###### 7 And he saw a chariot _with_ a pair of horsemen,
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A chariot of donkeys, _and_ a chariot of camels,
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And he listened earnestly with great care.
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###### 8 Then he cried, "A lion, my Lord!
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I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime;
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I have sat at my post every night.
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###### 9 And look, here comes a chariot of men _with_ a pair of horsemen!"
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Then he answered and said,
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"Babylon is fallen, is fallen!
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And all the carved images of her gods
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He has broken to the ground."
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###### 10 Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor!
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That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
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The God of Israel,
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I have declared to you.Proclamation Against Edom
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###### 11 The burden against Dumah.
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He calls to me out of Seir,
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"Watchman, what of the night?
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Watchman, what of the night?"
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###### 12 The watchman said,
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"The morning comes, and also the night.
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If you will inquire, inquire;
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Return! Come back!"Proclamation Against Arabia
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###### 13 The burden against Arabia.
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In the forest in Arabia you will lodge,
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O you traveling companies of Dedanites.
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###### 14 O inhabitants of the land of Tema,
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Bring water to him who is thirsty;
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With their bread they met him who fled.
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###### 15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword,
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From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.
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###### 16 For thus the Lord has said to me: "Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of Kedar will fail;
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###### 17 and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken _it._"
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