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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it. |
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