Isaiah 21
Isaiah 21 is chapter 21 of 66 in the book of Isaiah, with 17 verses in the Berean Standard Bible.
IsaiahChapter 21 of 6617 versesBerean Standard Bible
If God speaks to you through Isaiah 21, record what He said in Doxa and come back to it.
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.
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.”
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.
My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.
They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”
Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.
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!”
Fallen! Fallen is Babylon — announcement of judgment
“Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.””
Read Revelation 14:8›Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great — final judgment
“And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.”
Read Revelation 18:2›O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
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?”
The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
For they flee from the sword—the sword that is drawn—from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.
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.
The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.
Quoted in the Deeper Dive, day 48: Who were Kedar, Dumah and Tema in the Bible?
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““I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.”
““Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: ‘Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land choose a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,”
“And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.”
“For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.””
“Mishma, Dumah, Massa,”
Cross-references from OpenBible.info, licensed CC BY.
Isaiah 21 on Doxa
- Twelve Princes Before Twelve Tribes: Ishmael's Line (Genesis 25:12–18) · Quoted in the Deeper Dive, day 48
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