Isaiah 21

¹The Vision of the Desert. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, [even] from such a land,

¹THE VISION OF THE DESERT. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, [even] from such a land,

²[so] a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.

³Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see.

⁴My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.

⁵Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare [your] shields.

⁵Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, you⌃ princes, and prepare [your] shields.

⁶For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.

⁶For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for yourself, and declare whatever you shall see.

⁷And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.

⁸Hearken with great attention, and call thou Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all the night:

⁸Listen with great attention, and call you Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night:

⁹and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.

¹⁰Hear, ye that are left, and ye that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts [which] the God of Israel has declared to us.

¹⁰Hear, you⌃ that are left, and you⌃ that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts [which] the God of Israel has declared to us. THE VISION OF IDUMEA.

¹¹The Vision of Idumea. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks.

¹¹Call to me out of Seir; guard you⌃ the bulwarks.

¹²I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest enquire, enquire, and dwell by me.

¹²I watch in the morning and the night: if you would enquire, enquire, and dwell by me.

¹³Thou mayest lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Dædan.

¹³You may lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Daedan.

¹⁴Ye that dwell in the country of Thæman, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;

¹⁴You⌃ that dwell in the country of Thaeman, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;

¹⁵meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.

¹⁶For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of an hireling, [and] the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail:

¹⁷and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken [it].

Septuagint (Brenton, 1851)

Septuagint (LXX2012)