^21:1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land. ^21:2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam. Besiege, O Media, all the sighing of it I have made to cease.

    ^21:3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold upon me, as the pains of a woman in childbirth. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see. ^21:4 My heart wanders. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

    ^21:5 They arrange the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, you^* rulers, anoint the shield. ^21:6 For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. ^21:7 and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he will listen diligently with much heed.

    ^21:8 And he cried out as a lion, O Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime and am set in my confinement whole nights, ^21:9 and behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon. And all the graven images of her gods are broken to the ground. ^21:10 O my threshing and the grain of my floor! What I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you^*.

    ^21:11 The burden of Duma.

    He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? ^21:12 The watchman said, The morning comes and also the night. If you^* will inquire, inquire; turn back; come.

    ^21:13 The burden upon Arabia.

    In the forest in Arabia you^* will lodge, O you^* caravans of Dedanites. ^21:14 To him who was thirsty they brought water. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. ^21:15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword and from the bent bow and from the grievousness of war.

    ^21:16 For thus the Lord has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar will fail. ^21:17 And the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few. For Jehovah, the God of Israel, has spoken it.