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Isaiah 21
Three short oracles share this page, each headed "the burden of": the wilderness of the sea (v.1), Dumah (v.11), and Arabia (v.13). The first is the longest — a vision of attackers from a terrible land that leaves the prophet doubled over with labor-pains of dread, watching for the messenger who will finally cry, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon" (v.9). Watch how the prophet himself becomes a posted watchman straining for news, and how Dumah's anonymous voice keeps asking, "Watchman, what of the night?" — a question the answer never quite settles.
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The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
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A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
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Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.
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My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
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They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
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For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
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When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
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He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
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Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
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You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
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The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
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The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
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The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.
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They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
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For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
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For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
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and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
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CARGA del desierto de la mar. Como los torbellinos que pasan por el desierto en la región del mediodía, así vienen de la tierra horrenda.
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Visión dura me ha sido mostrada. El prevaricador prevarica, y el destructor destruye. Sube, Persa; cerca, Medo. Todo su gemido hice cesar.
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Por tanto mis lomos se han llenado de dolor; angustias se apoderaron de mí, como angustias de mujer de parto: agobiéme oyendo, y al ver heme espantado.
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Pasmóse mi corazón, el horror me ha intimidado; la noche de mi deseo se me tornó en espanto.
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Pon la mesa, mira del atalaya, come, bebe: levantaos, príncipes, ungid el escudo.
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Porque el Señor me dijo así: Ve, pon centinela que haga saber lo que viere.
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Y vió un carro de un par de caballeros, un carro de asno, y un carro de camello. Luego miró muy más atentamente.
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Y gritó como un león: Señor, sobre la atalaya estoy yo continuamente de día, y las noches enteras sobre mi guarda:
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Y he aquí este carro de hombres viene, un par de caballeros. Después habló, y dijo: Cayó, cayó Babilonia; y todos los ídolos de sus dioses quebrantó en tierra.
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Trilla mía, y paja de mi era: os he dicho lo que oí de Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel.
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Carga de Duma. Danme voces de Seir: Guarda, ¿qué de la noche? Guarda, ¿qué de la noche?
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El guarda respondió: La mañana viene, y después la noche: si preguntareis, preguntad; volved, venid.
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Carga sobre Arabia. En el monte tendréis la noche en Arabia, oh caminantes de Dedanim.
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Salid á encontrar al sediento; llevadle aguas, moradores de tierra de Tema, socorred con su pan al que huye.
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Porque de la presencia de las espadas huyen, de la presencia de la espada desnuda, de la presencia del arco entesado, de la presencia del peso de la batalla.
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Porque así me ha dicho Jehová: De aquí á un año, semejante á años de mozo de soldada, toda la gloria de Cedar será deshecha;
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Y las reliquias del número de los valientes flecheros, hijos de Cedar, serán apocadas: porque Jehová Dios de Israel lo ha dicho.
A year on the clock for Kedar
The Arabian oracle closes with a deadline a refugee would feel in the body: within one year "as a worker bound by contract would count it" (v.16), the glory of Kedar's archers fails. After the proud collapse of Babylon, the chapter turns to thirsty caravans of Dedanites and the people of Tema carrying bread to fugitives — the war reaching the desert trade routes, not only the great cities.
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