THE BOOKE OF THE Prophet Isaiah. Chapter 21

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CHAP. XXI.

1 The Prophet, bewayling the captiuity of his people, seeth in a vision, the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. 11 Edom, scorning the Prophet, is moued to repentance. 13 The set time of Arabias calamity.

¹The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlewinds in the South passe thorough; so it commeth from the desert, from a terrible land.

²A grieuous vision is declared vnto me; The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth: Goe, vp O Elam: besiege, O Media: all the sighing thereof haue I made to cease.²

³Therefore are my loynes filled with paine, pangs haue taken hold vpon me, as the pangs of a woman that trauelleth: I was bowed downe at the hearing of it, I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

⁴My heart panted, fearefulnesse affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into feare vnto me.⁴

⁵Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eate, drinke: arise yee princes, and anoint the shield.

⁶For thus hath the Lord sayd vnto me; Goe, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

⁷And he saw a charet with a couple of horsemen, a charet of asses, and a charet of camels; and hee hearkened diligently with much heede.

⁸And he cryed; A lyon: my Lord, I stand continually vpon the watch-tower in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights.⁸

⁹And behold, heere commeth a charet of men with a couple of horsemen: and he answered and sayd; Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and all the grauen images of her Gods he hath broken vnto the ground.⁹

¹⁰O my threshing and the corne of my floore: that which I haue heard of the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, haue I declared vnto you.¹⁰

¹¹¶ The burden of Dumah. Hee calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

¹²The watchman sayd; The morning commeth, and also the night: if yee will enquire, enquire yee: returne, come.

¹³¶ The burden vpon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall yee lodge, O yee trauelling companies of Dedanim.

¹⁴The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they preuented with their bread him that fled.¹⁴

¹⁵For they fled from the swords, from the drawen sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grieuousnesse of warre.¹⁵

¹⁶For thus hath the Lord sayd vnto me: Within a yeere, according to the yeeres of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall faile.

¹⁷And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar shalbe diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.¹⁷

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Isaiah Chapter 21

² Heb. hard.
⁴ Or, my minde wandred. , Heb. put.
⁸ Or, cryed as a lyon. , Abacuc. 2.1. , Or, euery night.
⁹ Ier.51.8. reu.14.8. and 18.2.
¹⁰ Heb. sonne.
¹⁴ Or, bring yee.
¹⁵ Or, for feare. Heb. from the face.
¹⁷ Heb. bowes

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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