Berean Standard Bible
Isaiah 21:2-9
2A 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.”
3Therefore 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.4My heart falters;fear makes me tremble.The twilight I desiredhas turned to horror.5They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet,they eat, they drink!
Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!6For this is what the Lord says to me:
“Go, post a lookoutand have him report what he sees.7When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen,riders on donkeys, riders on camels,he must be alert, fully alert.”
“Day after day, my lord,I stand on the watchtower;night after nightI stay at my post.9Look, here come the riders,horsemen in pairs.”
And one answered, saying:
Notes
- 1. Isaiah 21:8 DSS and Syriac; MT lion ↩
- 2. Isaiah 21:9 See Revelation 14:8 and Revelation 18:2. ↩
Commentaries on Isaiah 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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