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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A pronouncement concerning the desert by the sea: Like storms that pass over the Negev, it comes from the desert, from the land of terror. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2A troubling vision is declared to me: "The treacherous one acts treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Therefore I am filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4My heart staggers; horror terrifies me. He has turned my last glimmer of hope into sheer terror. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet! Eat and drink! Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For the Lord has said to me, "Go, post a lookout; let him report what he sees. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7When he sees riders--pairs of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels--he must pay close attention." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the lookout reported, "Lord, I stand on the watchtower all day, and I stay at my post all night. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Look, riders come--horsemen in pairs." And he answered, saying, "Babylon has fallen, has fallen. All the images of her gods have been shattered on the ground." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10My people who have been crushed on the threshing floor, I have declared to you what I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11A pronouncement concerning Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, "Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The watchman said, "Morning has come, and also night. If you want to ask, ask! Come back again." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13A pronouncement concerning Arabia: In the desert brush you will camp for the night, you caravans of Dedanites. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Bring water for the thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema meet the refugees with food. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For they have fled from swords, from the drawn sword, from the bow that is strung, and from the stress of battle. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For the Lord said this to me: "Within one year, as a hired worker counts years, all the glory of Kedar will be gone. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The remaining Kedarite archers will be few in number." For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken. |
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