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 wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on, it cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful 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 declared unto me: 'The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media! All the sighing thereof have I made 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 convulsion; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bent so that I cannot hear; I am affrighted so that I cannot see.

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 is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.

5 to arrange [the] table to overlay [the] rug to eat to drink to arise: rise [the] ruler to anoint shield

They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink — 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint 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 unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!

7 and to see: see chariot pair horseman chariot donkey chariot camel and to listen attentiveness many attentiveness

And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken 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 he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O Lord, I stand continually in the daytime, and I am set in my ward all the 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

And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs. And he spoke and said: 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods 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 thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor, that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I 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 Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? 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, and also the night — if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'

13 oracle in/on/with Arabia in/on/with wood in/on/with Arabia to lodge caravan Dedanite

The burden upon Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.

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

Unto him that is thirsty bring ye water! The inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitive with his bread.

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 fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

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 hath the Lord said unto me: 'Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail;

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 the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished; for the LORD, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.'