THE  burden against the Wilderness of the Sea . As whirlwinds in the south pass through, so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land .

2 A distressing vision is declared to me ; the tracherous dealer deals tracherously, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam ! Besiege , O Media ! All its sighing I have made to cease.

 3 Therefore my lions are filled with pain ; pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I  was distressed when I heard it ; I was dismayed when I saw it ; I was dismayed when I saw it .

4 My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened  me ; the night for which I longed He turned into for me.

5 Prepare the table , set a watchman in the tower , eat and drink . Arise, you princes, anoint the shield !

6 For thus has the Lord said to me ::" Go , set a watchman, let them declare what he sees."

7 And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, a chariot of camels, and he listened earnestly with great care.

8 Then he cried ," A lion my Lord ! I stand continually on the watch - tower in the daytime ;I have sat at my post every night.

9 And look, here comes a chariots of men with a pair of horsemen ! " then he answered and said Babylon is fallen, fallen ! And all the carved images of her gods he has broken to the ground."

10 Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor ! That which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

11 The burden against Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir," Watchman, what of the night ?  Watchman, what of the night ? "

12 The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If  you will inquire, inquire ; return ! Come back ! "

13 The burden against Arabia. In the forest in the Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites.

14 O inhabitant of the land Tema, bring water to him who is thirsty ; with their bread they met him who fled.

15 For they fled from the swords , from the bent bow , and from the distress of war.

16 For thus the LORD  has said to me : " Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of Kedar will fail ;     

17 " And the remainder of the number of archers,the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will diminished ; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it ." ISAIAH  21