Isaiah 21 | BSB Bible Study

Isaiah 21:1 (BSB)
This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.

Isaiah 21:2 (BSB)
A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Isaiah 21:3 (BSB)
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.

Isaiah 21:4 (BSB)
My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.

Isaiah 21:5 (BSB)
They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!

Isaiah 21:6 (BSB)
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.

Isaiah 21:7 (BSB)
When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”

Isaiah 21:8 (BSB)
Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

Isaiah 21:9 (BSB)
Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

Isaiah 21:10 (BSB)
O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 21:11 (BSB)
This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

Isaiah 21:12 (BSB)
The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

Isaiah 21:13 (BSB)
This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

Isaiah 21:14 (BSB)
Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.

Isaiah 21:15 (BSB)
For they flee from the sword—the sword that is drawn—from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.

Isaiah 21:16 (BSB)
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

Isaiah 21:17 (BSB)
The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

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