Douay Bible - Isaiah Chapter 21

Isaiah 21:1
THE burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.

Isaiah 21:2
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.

Isaiah 21:3
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.

Isaiah 21:4
My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

Isaiah 21:5
Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.

Isaiah 21:6
For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.

Isaiah 21:7
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.

Isaiah 21:8
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.

Isaiah 21:9
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.

Isaiah 21:10
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.

Isaiah 21:11
The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?

Isaiah 21:12
The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.

Isaiah 21:13
The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.

Isaiah 21:14
Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.

Isaiah 21:15
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.

Isaiah 21:16
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.

Isaiah 21:17
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.

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