Isaiah 21:8 - Prayer Tents

Isaiah 21

A Judgment on Babylon

21An oracle against the desert by the sea: Like storms that pass over the Negev, it comes from the desert, from the land of terror.H4853H4057H3220H5492H5045H2498H935H4057H3372H7762A troubling vision is declared to me: "The treacherous one acts treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all her groaning."H7186H2380H5046H898H898H7703H7703H5927H5867H6696H4074H585H76733Therefore I am filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.H4975H4390H2479H6735H270H6735H3205H5753H8085H926H72004My heart staggers; horror terrifies me. He has turned my last glimmer of hope into sheer terror.H3824H8582H6427H1204H5399H2837H7760H27315Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet! Eat and drink! Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!H6186H7979H6822H6844H398H8354H6965H8269H4886H40436For the Lord has said to me, "Go, post a lookout; let him report what he sees.H136H559H3212H5975H6822H5046H72007When he sees riders— pairs of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels— pay close attention."H7200H7393H6776H6571H7393H2543H7393H1581H7181H7182H7227H71828Then the lookout reported, "Lord, I stand on the watchtower all day, and I stay at my post all night.H7121H738H136H5975H8548H4707H3119H5324H4931H39159Look, riders come— horsemen in pairs." And he answered, saying, "Babylon has fallen, has fallen. All the idols of her gods have been shattered on the ground."H935H7393H376H6776H6571H6030H559H894H5307H5307H6456H430H7665H77610My downtrodden and threshed people, I have declared to you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.H4098H1121H1637H8085H3068H6635H430H3478H5046

An Oracle against Dumah

11An oracle against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, "Watchman, what is [left] of the night? Watchman, what is [left] of the night?"H4853H1746H7121H8165H8104H3915H8104H391512The watchman said, "Morning has come, and also night. If you want to ask, ask! Come back again."H8104H559H1242H857H3915H1158H1158H7725H857

An Oracle against Arabia

13An oracle against Arabia: You will camp for the night in the scrublands of the desert, you caravans of Dedanites.H4853H6152H3293H6152H3885H736H172014Bring water for the thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema meet the refugees with food.H3427H776H8485H857H4325H7125H6771H6923H3899H507415For they have fled from swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, from the stress of battle.H5074H6440H2719H6440H5203H2719H6440H1869H7198H6440H3514H442116For the Lord said this to me: "Within one year, as a hired worker counts years, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.H136H559H8141H8141H7916H3519H6938H361517The remaining Kedarite archers will be few in number." For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.H7605H4557H7198H1368H1121H6938H4591H3068H430H3478H1696