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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/isaiah/21.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</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 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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The burden of the wilderness of the sea.<p></div><div class="po4">As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on,</div><div class="po2">It cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>A grievous vision is declared unto me:</div><div class="po2">‘The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.</div><div class="po2">Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media!</div><div class="po2">All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion;</div><div class="po2">Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail;</div><div class="po2">I am bent so that I cannot hear;</div><div class="po2">I am affrighted so that I cannot see.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me;</div><div class="po2">The twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink—</div><div class="po2">‘Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.’</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For thus hath the Lord said unto me:</div><div class="po2">Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs,</div><div class="po2">A troop of asses, a troop of camels,</div><div class="po2">He shall hearken diligently with much heed.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he cried as a lion: ‘Upon the watch-tower, O Lord,</div><div class="po2">I stand continually in the daytime,</div><div class="po2">And I am set in my ward all the nights.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs.</div><div class="po2">And he spoke and said:</div><div class="po2">‘Fallen, fallen is Babylon;</div><div class="po2">And all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor,</div><div class="po2">That which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, have I declared unto you.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The burden of Dumah.<p></div><div class="po4">One calleth unto me out of Seir:</div><div class="po2">‘Watchman, what of the night?</div><div class="po2">Watchman, what of the night?’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The watchman said:</div><div class="po2">‘The morning cometh, and also the night—</div><div class="po2">If ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.’</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The burden upon Arabia.<p></div><div class="po4">In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Unto him that is thirsty bring ye water!</div><div class="po2">The inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitive with his bread.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword,</div><div class="po2">And from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For 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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and 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.’</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/isaiah/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>