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Three brief watchman-style oracles announce the fall of Babylon, distress concerning Dumah/Edom, and movements through Arabia, all emphasizing sudden reversals among surrounding peoples.
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Isaiah 21
Three brief watchman-style oracles announce the fall of Babylon, distress concerning Dumah/Edom, and movements through Arabia, all emphasizing sudden reversals among surrounding peoples.
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1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds…2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer…3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken…4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my…5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise,…6For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set…7And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen,…8And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually…9And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a…10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that…11The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of…12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night:…13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall…14The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to…15For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword,…16For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a…17And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty…