Isaiah 21:2 - Prayer Tents

Isaiah 21

The Betrayer Betrayed

21A Message concerning the desert at the sea: As tempests drive through the Negev Desert, coming out of the desert, that terror-filled place,H4853H4057H3220H5492H5045H2498H935H4057H3372H7762A hard vision is given me: The betrayer betrayed, the plunderer plundered. Attack, Elam! Lay siege, Media! Persians, attack! Attack, Babylon! I'll put an end to all the moaning and groaning.H7186H2380H5046H898H898H7703H7703H5927H5867H6696H4074H585H76733Because of this news I'm doubled up in pain, writhing in pain like a woman having a baby, Baffled by what I hear, undone by what I see.H4975H4390H2479H6735H270H6735H3205H5753H8085H926H72004Absolutely stunned, horror-stricken, I had hoped for a relaxed evening, but it has turned into a nightmare.H3824H8582H6427H1204H5399H2837H7760H27315The banquet is spread, the guests reclining in luxurious ease, Eating and drinking, having a good time, and then, "To arms, princes! The fight is on!"H6186H7979H6822H6844H398H8354H6965H8269H4886H40436The Master told me, "Go, post a lookout. Have him report whatever he spots.H136H559H3212H5975H6822H5046H72007When he sees horses and wagons in battle formation, lines of donkeys and columns of camels, Tell him to keep his ear to the ground, note every whisper, every rumor."H7200H7393H6776H6571H7393H2543H7393H1581H7181H7182H7227H71828Just then, the lookout shouted, "I'm at my post, Master, Sticking to my post day after day and all through the night!H7121H738H136H5975H8548H4707H3119H5324H4931H39159I watched them come, the horses and wagons in battle formation. I heard them call out the war news in headlines: 'Babylon fallen! Fallen! And all its precious god-idols smashed to pieces on the ground.'"H935H7393H376H6776H6571H6030H559H894H5307H5307H6456H430H7665H77610Dear Israel, you've been through a lot, you've been put through the mill. The good news I get from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, I now pass on to you.H4098H1121H1637H8085H3068H6635H430H3478H504611A Message concerning Edom: A voice calls to me from the Seir mountains in Edom, "Night watchman! How long till daybreak? How long will this night last?"H4853H1746H7121H8165H8104H3915H8104H391512The night watchman calls back, "Morning's coming, But for now it's still night. If you ask me again, I'll give the same answer."H8104H559H1242H857H3915H1158H1158H7725H85713A Message concerning Arabia: You'll have to camp out in the desert badlands, you caravans of Dedanites.H4853H6152H3293H6152H3885H736H172014Haul water to the thirsty, greet fugitives with bread. Show your desert hospitality, you who live in Tema.H3427H776H8485H857H4325H7125H6771H6923H3899H507415The desert's swarming with refugees escaping the horrors of war.H5074H6440H2719H6440H5203H2719H6440H1869H7198H6440H3514H442116The Master told me, "Hang on. Within one year—I'll sign a contract on it!—the arrogant brutality of Kedar, those hooligans of the desert, will be over,H136H559H8141H8141H7916H3519H6938H361517nothing much left of the Kedar toughs." The GOD of Israel says so.H7605H4557H7198H1368H1121H6938H4591H3068H430H3478H1696