Ozzuu Bible
en_cjb - Isa 21Config
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A prophecy about the coastal desert: Like whirlwinds sweeping over the Negev, it comes from the desert, from a fearsome land.
2
A dire vision has been shown to me: the betrayer betrays, and the spoiler spoils. ‘Eilam, advance! Madai, lay siege! I will end all groaning.
3
This is why my insides are racked with pain; I am seized by pangs, like a woman in labor; wrenched by what I hear, aghast at what I see.
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If he sees the cavalry, horsemen in pairs, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be on alert, on full alert!”
8
He calls out like a lion: “My lord, I stand on the watchtower all day long, I stay at my post all night.”
9
Then, as they appeared — the cavalry, horsemen in pairs — he spoke these words: “She has fallen! She has fallen — Bavel! All the carved images of her gods lie shattered on the ground.”
10
My people, who have been threshed, grain trodden down on my threshing-floor: I am telling you what I have heard from ADONAI-Tzva’ot , the God of Isra’el.
11
A prophecy about Dumah: Someone is calling to me from Se‘ir: “Watchman, how much longer is it night? Watchman, how much longer is it night?”
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The watchman answers: “Morning is coming, but also the night. If you want to ask, ask! Come back again!”
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For this is what Adonai has told me: “Within a year [and not a day more], as if a hired worker were keeping track of the time, the glory of Kedar will come to an end.