Isaiah 21

1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

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

2 A 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.

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

3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labour. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.

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

4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

to go astray heart my shuddering to terrify me [obj] twilight desire my to set: make to/for me to/for trembling

5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

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

6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

for thus to say to(wards) me Lord to go: went to stand: stand [the] to watch which to see: see to tell

7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

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

8 He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

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

9 Behold, 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.

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

10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

threshed my and son: type of threshing floor my which to hear: hear from with LORD Hosts God Israel to tell to/for you

11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

oracle Dumah to(wards) me to call: call to from Seir to keep: guard what? from night to keep: guard what? from night

12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will enquire, enquire. Come back again.”

to say to keep: guard to come morning and also night if to enquire [emph?] to enquire to return: again to come

13 The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.

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

14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

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

15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

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

16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

for thus to say Lord to(wards) me in/on/with still year like/as year hired and to end: finish all glory Kedar

17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”

and remnant number bow mighty man son: descendant/people Kedar to diminish for LORD God Israel to speak: speak