Isaiah 2121IsaiahOracles about the nationsJPS Tanakh 1917

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1. Babylon Is Fallen

   (Revelation 18:1–8)

2. 1JPSThe burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on, it cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.BSBBSB: 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.
3. 2JPSA grievous vision is declared unto me: 'The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media! All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.'BSBBSB: 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.”
4. 3JPSTherefore are my loins filled with convulsion; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bent so that I cannot hear; I am affrighted so that I cannot see.BSBBSB: 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.
5. 4JPSMy heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.BSBBSB: My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.
6. 5JPSThey prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink — 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'BSBBSB: They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
7. 6JPSFor thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!BSBBSB: For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
8. 7JPSAnd when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.BSBBSB: When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”
9. 8JPSAnd he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O Lord, I stand continually in the daytime, and I am set in my ward all the nights.'BSBBSB: Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.
10. 9JPSAnd, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs. And he spoke and said: 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.'BSBBSB: 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!”
11. 10JPSO thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor, that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.BSBBSB: O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.

12. The Burden against Edom

    (Isaiah 34:5–17)

13. 11JPSThe burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'BSBBSB: 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?”
14. 12JPSThe watchman said: 'The morning cometh, and also the night — if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'BSBBSB: The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

15. The Burden against Arabia

16. 13JPSThe burden upon Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.BSBBSB: This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
17. 14JPSUnto him that is thirsty bring ye water! The inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitive with his bread.BSBBSB: Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
18. 15JPSFor they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.BSBBSB: For they flee from the sword—the sword that is drawn—from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.
19. 16JPSFor thus hath the Lord said unto me: 'Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail;BSBBSB: 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.
20. 17JPSand the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished; for the LORD, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.'BSBBSB: The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

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