# Isaiah 21

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/21

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. The oracle of the wilderness of the sea—like whirlwinds sweeping through the south, it comes from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.
2. A grim vision is revealed to me; the betrayer betrays, the ravager ravages. Arise, Elam; besiege, Media—all her groaning I have silenced.
3. Therefore anguish filled my loins; birth pangs gripped me like those of a woman in labor. Hearing it, I writhed; seeing it, I panicked.
4. My heart reeled. Horror terrified me; he made the twilight of my desire into trembling for me.
5. Arrange the table, man the watchtower, eat, drink: rise up, captains, oil the shield.
6. For thus my Lord said to me: Go, station a watchman, let him declare what he sees.
7. He sees a chariot, a pair of horsemen, a chariot of donkeys, a chariot of camels, and listens diligently with much heed.
8. He cried, "Lion! My Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower by day, and I stand at my post every night."
9. Look, here comes a chariot, a man, a pair of horsemen. He answered and said, "Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and all the carved images of her gods lie broken on the earth.
10. O my threshing and the grain of my floor, I have told you what I heard from Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel.
11. The oracle of Dumah. Someone calls to me from Seir, "Watchman, what about the night? Watchman, what about the night?"
12. The watchman answered, "Morning comes, and also night. If you inquire, inquire. Return, come."
13. The oracle concerning Arabia: in the forest in Arabia you will lodge, traveling companies of Dedanites.
14. Dwellers in the land of Tema brought water to meet the thirsty and met the wanderer with their bread.
15. For they fled from swords, from the unsheathed sword, from the drawn bow, and from the weight of war.
16. For thus the Lord said to me: Within a year, like a hireling's years, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
17. The number of surviving archers, the mighty men of Kedar's children, will be few; for Yahweh, God of Israel, has spoken.

## Nearby chapters

[Isaiah 20](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/20.md)
[Isaiah 22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/22.md)

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