Isaiah Chapter 21    

¹The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negev sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
  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.
  ³Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I cannot hear. I so am dismayed that I cannot see.
  ⁴My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
  ⁵They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you officials, oil the shield!
  ⁶For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
  ⁷When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he will listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
  ⁸He cried out like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
  ⁹Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon, and all the carved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
  ¹⁰You are my threshing and the grain of my floor!” What I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
 

¹¹The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
  ¹²The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
 

¹³The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.
  ¹⁴They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
  ¹⁵For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow and from the heat of battle.
 

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,
  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.”