God Commands That Babylon Be Taken: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTRE

Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 1-10

¹ The^aoracle concerning the^bwilderness of the sea.As windstorms in the^cNegev sweep on,
It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.

²A harsh vision has been shown to me;
The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys.
Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media;
I have made an end of all^dthe groaning she has caused.

³For this reason my loins are full of anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

⁴My^emind reels,^fhorror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

⁵They set the table, they^gspread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, captains, oil the shields,”

⁶ For thus the Lord says to me,“Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.

⁷“When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
A train of donkeys, a train of camels,
Let him pay close attention, very close attention.”

⁸ Then^hthe lookout called,“O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower,
And I am stationed every night at my guard post.

⁹“Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the images of her godsⁱare shattered on the ground.”

¹⁰O my threshed people, and my^jafflicted of the threshing floor!
What I have heard from the LORD of hosts,
The God of Israel, I make known to you.


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