Isaiah 21:8-17 ▼

8 And he cries, “A lion, my lord! I am continually standing on a watchtower by day, || And I am stationed on my ward whole nights.

9 And behold, this, the chariot of a man is coming, || A couple of horsemen.” And he answers and says: “Fallen, fallen has Babylon, || And He has broken all the carved images of her gods to the earth.

10 O my threshing, and the son of my floor, || That which I heard from YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel, || I have declared to you!”

11 The burden of Dumah. [One] is calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

12 The watchman has said, “Morning has come, and also night, || If you inquire, inquire, return, come.”

13 The burden on Arabia. You lodge in a forest in Arabia, || O caravans of Dedanim.

14 Inhabitants of the land of Tema || Have brought water to meet the thirsty, || With his bread they came before a fugitive.

15 For they fled from the face of destructions, || From the face of an outstretched sword, || And from the face of a trodden bow, || And from the face of the grievousness of battle.

16 For thus said the Lord to me: “Within a year, as years of a hired worker, || All the glory of Kedar has been consumed.

17 And the remnant of the number of bow-men, || The mighty of the sons of Kedar, are few, || For YHWH, God of Israel, has spoken!”