Isaiah
21* The boding of wildernesses:
Like gales over the South as it sweeps by, it comes from a wilderness, from a fearful country; 2 as a hard prospect it is told me: the defrauder defrauds and the marauder marauds. Up, ʽElam; lay siege, Media; I have put a stop to all their moaning. 3** Therefore my back is full of cramps, pains like a childbearing woman’s have seized me; I am too dizzy to hear, too dazed to see. 4 My brain wanders, shudders overwhelm me; the twilight I was so fond of he has made a time of panic for me. 5* The table set, the rug laid out, eating and drinking—up, captains, grease shields! 6 For the Lord says to me “Go station the lookout; he is to report 7 what he sees, and when he sees two-horse chariots, donkey chariots, camel chariots, he is to listen hard, hard.” 8* And he called out “O, O, I stand always on watch by day, Lord, and I am planted on guard all through the nights, 9** and here come chariots, men, paired horses”—and he answered “Babylon is fallen, fallen, and all the bas-reliefs of her gods he has broken up and left on the ground.” 10* My threshing, grain of my floor, what I have heard from Israel’s God Jehovah of Armies I have reported to you.
11 The boding of Dumah:
One calls to me out of Seʽir “Watchman, what time of night? watchman, what time of night?” 12* Says watchman, “Morning is come and night too; if you are inquiring, inquire; come again.”
13* The boding “in the desert”:
In the badlands in the desert you will spend the night, caravans of Dedanites. 14 Come with water to meet a thirsty one, inhabitants of Tema; offer a fugitive his bread; 15* for they have taken flight before swords, before whetted swords and strung bows and stress of war.
16* For the Lord has said to me “In another year, like the years of a hired man’s contract, Kedar’s importance will all be gone 17* and the remnant of the archer champions of the sons of Kedar will be few; for Israel’s God Jehovah has spoken.”