Isaiah 21
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Berean Standard Bible
1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.
1This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
2A 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.
2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
3Therefore 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.
3Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
4My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
5Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
5They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
6For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
6For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
7And 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.
7When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”
8And 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.
8Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.
9Behold 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.
9Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
10O 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.
10O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
11The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?
11This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
12The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.
12The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
13The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.
13This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
14Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.
14Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
15For 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.
15For they flee from the sword— the sword that is drawn— from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.
16For 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.
16For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
17And 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.
17The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.
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