< 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
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.
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 grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.
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 are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.
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 failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
5 to arrange [the] table to overlay [the] rug to eat to drink to arise: rise [the] ruler to anoint shield
Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
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 thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
7 and to see: see chariot pair horseman chariot donkey chariot camel and to listen attentiveness many attentiveness
And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.
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
And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.
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
Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto 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 thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.
11 oracle Dumah to(wards) me to call: call to from Seir to keep: guard what? from night to keep: guard what? from night
The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what 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 said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.
13 oracle in/on/with Arabia in/on/with wood in/on/with Arabia to lodge caravan Dedanite
The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.
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
Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.
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 are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous 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 thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.
17 and remnant number bow mighty man son: descendant/people Kedar to diminish for LORD God Israel to speak: speak
And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.