Isaiah 21:1–10

Isaiah 21:1–104 matched frames1 pivot

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.
- B 2b Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
  - C 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
    - a 6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
      - b 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
    - a' 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
      - b' 9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.
- B' 9b And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
A' 10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.