Babylon Is Fallen (Revelation 18:1–8)
1 Brenton The Vision of the Desert. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, even from such a land, BSB 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.
2 Brenton so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.BSB 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.”
3 Brenton Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see. BSB 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.
4 Brenton My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear. BSB BSB: My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.
5 Brenton Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare your shields. BSB BSB: They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
6 Brenton For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see. BSB BSB: For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
7 Brenton And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel. BSB BSB: When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”
8 Brenton Hearken with great attention, and call thou Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all the night: BSB BSB: Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.
9 Brenton and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground. BSB 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!”
10 Brenton Hear, ye that are left, and ye that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts which the God of Israel has declared to us. BSB 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.
The Burden against Edom (Isaiah 34:5–17)
11 Brenton The Vision of Idumea. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks. BSB 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?”
12 Brenton I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest enquire, enquire, and dwell by me. BSB BSB: The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
The Burden against Arabia 13 Brenton Thou mayest lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Dædan. BSB BSB: This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
14 Brenton Ye that dwell in the country of Thæman, bring water to meet him that is thirsty; BSB BSB: Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
15 Brenton meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war. BSB BSB: For they flee from the sword—the sword that is drawn—from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.
16 Brenton For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of an hireling, and the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail: BSB 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.
17 Brenton and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it . BSB BSB: The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.
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