Isaiah 21

1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.Cross-references: Job 37:9 · Isa 13:1 · Isa 13:4 · Isa 13:17 · Isa 13:20 · Isa 14:23 · +6 more

2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.Cross-references: 1Sam 24:13 · Ps 12:5 · Ps 60:3 · Ps 79:11 · Ps 137:1 · Prov 13:15 · +27 more

3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.Cross-references: Deut 28:67 · Ps 48:6 · Isa 13:8 · Isa 15:5 · Isa 16:9 · Isa 16:11 · +8 more

4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.Cross-references: Deut 28:67 · 1Sam 25:36 · 2Sam 13:28 · Esth 5:12 · Esth 7:6 · Job 21:11 · +8 more

5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!Cross-references: Isa 13:2 · Isa 13:17 · Isa 22:13 · Isa 45:1 · Jer 51:11 · Jer 51:27 · +4 more

6For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:17 · Isa 62:6 · Jer 51:12 · Ezek 3:17 · Ezek 33:2 · Hab 2:1

7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”Cross-references: Isa 21:9 · Isa 37:24 · Heb 2:1

8He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.Cross-references: Ps 63:6 · Ps 127:1 · Isa 5:29 · Isa 56:10 · Isa 62:6 · Jer 4:7 · +5 more

9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.Cross-references: Isa 13:19 · Isa 14:4 · Isa 46:1 · Jer 50:2 · Jer 50:9 · Jer 50:29 · +11 more

10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:14 · 2Ki 13:7 · Isa 41:15 · Jer 51:33 · Ezek 3:17 · Mic 4:13 · +3 more

11The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”Cross-references: Gen 25:14 · Gen 32:3 · Num 24:18 · Deut 2:5 · 1Chr 1:30 · Ps 137:7 · +11 more

12The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”Cross-references: Isa 17:14 · Isa 55:7 · Jer 42:19 · Jer 50:27 · Ezek 7:5 · Ezek 7:10 · +6 more

13The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.Cross-references: Gen 25:3 · 1Ki 10:15 · 1Chr 1:9 · 1Chr 1:32 · Isa 13:1 · Isa 13:20 · +5 more

14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.Cross-references: Gen 25:15 · Judg 8:4 · 1Chr 1:30 · Job 6:19 · Prov 25:21 · Isa 16:3 · +2 more

15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.Cross-references: Job 6:19 · Isa 13:14

16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,Cross-references: Gen 25:13 · 1Chr 1:29 · Job 7:1 · Ps 120:5 · Song 1:5 · Isa 16:14 · +4 more

17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”Cross-references: Num 23:19 · Ps 107:39 · Isa 1:20 · Isa 10:18 · Isa 17:4 · Jer 44:29 · +2 more