< Isaiah 21 >
1 oracle wilderness sea like/as whirlwind in/on/with Negeb to/for to pass from wilderness to come (in): come from land: country/planet to fear
This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
2 vision severe to tell to/for me [the] to act treacherously to act treacherously and [the] to ruin to ruin to ascend: rise Elam to confine Media all sighing her to cease
A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
3 upon so to fill loin my anguish pang to grasp me like/as pang to beget to twist from to hear: hear to dismay from to see: see
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
4 to go astray heart my shuddering to terrify me [obj] twilight desire my to set: make to/for me to/for trembling
My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
5 to arrange [the] table to overlay [the] rug to eat to drink to arise: rise [the] ruler to anoint shield
They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
6 for thus to say to(wards) me Lord to go: went to stand: stand [the] to watch which to see: see to tell
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
7 and to see: see chariot pair horseman chariot donkey chariot camel and to listen attentiveness many attentiveness
When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”
8 and to call: call out lion upon lookout Lord I to stand: stand continually by day and upon charge my I to stand all [the] night
Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.
9 and behold this to come (in): come chariot man pair horseman and to answer and to say to fall: fall to fall: fall Babylon and all idol God her to break to/for land: soil
Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
10 threshed my and son: type of threshing floor my which to hear: hear from with LORD Hosts God Israel to tell to/for you
O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
11 oracle Dumah to(wards) me to call: call to from Seir to keep: guard what? from night to keep: guard what? from night
This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
12 to say to keep: guard to come morning and also night if to enquire [emph?] to enquire to return: again to come
The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
13 oracle in/on/with Arabia in/on/with wood in/on/with Arabia to lodge caravan Dedanite
This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
14 to/for to encounter: meet thirsty to come water to dwell land: country/planet Tema in/on/with food: bread his to meet to wander
Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
15 for from face: before sword to wander from face: before sword to leave and from face: before bow to tread and from face: before heaviness battle
For they flee from the sword— the sword that is drawn— from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.
16 for thus to say Lord to(wards) me in/on/with still year like/as year hired and to end: finish all glory Kedar
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
17 and remnant number bow mighty man son: descendant/people Kedar to diminish for LORD God Israel to speak: speak
The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.