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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 21 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Isaiah 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/20.htm" title="Isaiah 20">◄</a> Isaiah 21 <a href="../isaiah/22.htm" title="Isaiah 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/21-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Babylon Is Fallen<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../revelation/18.htm">Revelation 18:1–8</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south for passing through, from the desert it came, from a fearful land.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>A hard vision was announced to me: The spoiler spoiled, and he laying waste, laid waste. Go up, O Elam: press, O Media; all her sighing I caused to cease.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For this, my loins were filled with pain: distress took hold of me as the pains of her bringing forth: I was shaken from hearing; I trembled from seeing.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My heart wandered; trembling made me afraid: the evening twilight of my desire he put to me for fear.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Set in order the table; view the watch-tower; eat, drink: arise ye chiefs, anoint the shield.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For thus said Jehovah to me, Go set up a watchman, he shall announce what he shall see.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He will see a chariot, a pair of horse men, the rider of an ass, the rider of a camel; and listening, he listened with much attention.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he will call, A lion: on the watch-tower my lord, I stand continually in the day, and upon my watch I stand all the night.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And behold, here came a chariot, a man, a pair of horsemen. And he will answer and say, She fell, Babel fell; and the carved images of her god he brake in pieces to the earth.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>O my threshing, and the son of my threshing-floor, what I heard from Jehovah of armies the God of Israel, I announced to you.<p> <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">The Burden against Edom<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../isaiah/34.htm#5">Isaiah 34:5–17</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The burden of Dumah. He called to me from Seir, Watch, what of the night? watch, what of the night?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The watch said, I will mark out morning, and also night; if ye will seek, seek ye: turn back, come.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Burden against Arabia<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The burden of Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, ye wayfarers of Dedanim.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>To meet the thirsty, bring ye water, O inhabitants of the land of Tema: anticipate ye him wandering, with bread.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For they fled from the face of the swords, the sword drawn out, and from the face of the bent bow, and from the face of the heaviness of war.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For thus said the Lord to me, Within yet a year; as the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar was finished. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the rest of the bows of the strong sons of Kedar shall be few: for Jehovah God of Israel spake.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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