Isaiah 21
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 21:4-9

4My 1mind reels, 2horror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been 3turned for me into trembling.5They 4set the table, they 5spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; “Rise up, captains, oil the shields,” 6For thus the Lord says to me, “Go, station the lookout, let him 6report what he sees.7When he sees 7riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention.” 8Then 8the lookout called, “9O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.9Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one said, “10Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the 11images of her gods 12are shattered on the ground.”

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  1. 1. Isaiah 21:4 Lit heart has wandered ↩
  2. 2. Isaiah 21:4 Lit shuddering ↩
  3. 3. Isaiah 21:4 Deut 28:67 ↩
  4. 4. Isaiah 21:5 Jer 51:39, 57; Dan 5:1-4 ↩
  5. 5. Isaiah 21:5 Or spread out the rugs or possibly they arranged the seating ↩
  6. 6. Isaiah 21:6 2 Kin 9:17-20 ↩
  7. 7. Isaiah 21:7 Is 21:9 ↩
  8. 8. Isaiah 21:8 So DSS; M.T. he called like a lion ↩
  9. 9. Isaiah 21:8 Hab 2:1 ↩
  10. 10. Isaiah 21:9 Is 13:19; 47:5, 9; 48:14; Jer 51:8; Rev 14:8; 18:2 ↩
  11. 11. Isaiah 21:9 Is 46:1; Jer 50:2; 51:44 ↩
  12. 12. Isaiah 21:9 Lit he has shattered to the earth ↩

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