Isaiah 21:11-22:4

New International Version

A Prophecy Against Edom

¹¹A prophecy against Dumah^[a]:^(A)

Someone calls to me from Seir,^(B)
    “Watchman, what is left of the night?
    Watchman, what is left of the night?”
¹²The watchman replies,
    “Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you would ask, then ask;
    and come back yet again.”

A Prophecy Against Arabia

¹³A prophecy^(C) against Arabia:^(D)

You caravans of Dedanites,^(E)
    who camp in the thickets of Arabia,
¹⁴    bring water for the thirsty;
you who live in Tema,^(F)
    bring food for the fugitives.
¹⁵They flee^(G) from the sword,^(H)
    from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow
    and from the heat of battle.

¹⁶This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract^(I) would count it, all the splendor^(J) of Kedar^(K) will come to an end. ¹⁷The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.^(L)” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.^(M)

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

22 A prophecy^(N) against the Valley^(O) of Vision:^(P)

What troubles you now,
    that you have all gone up on the roofs,^(Q)
²you town so full of commotion,
    you city of tumult^(R) and revelry?^(S)
Your slain^(T) were not killed by the sword,^(U)
    nor did they die in battle.
³All your leaders have fled^(V) together;
    they have been captured^(W) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
    having fled while the enemy was still far away.
⁴Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep^(X) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”^(Y)