| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As windstorms in the Negev sweep on, It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2A harsh vision has been shown to me; The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media; I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4My mind reels, horror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; "Rise up, captains, oil the shields," |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For thus the Lord says to me, "Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the lookout called, "O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs." And one said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10O my threshed people, and my afflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I make known to you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The oracle concerning Edom. One keeps calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, how far gone is the night? Watchman, how far gone is the night?" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The watchman says, "Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The oracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Bring water for the thirsty, O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Meet the fugitive with bread. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow And from the press of battle. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For thus the Lord said to me, "In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken." |
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