Isaiah 21:3-5

English Standard Version

³Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
    ^(A)pangs have seized me,
    like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
    I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
⁴My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
    ^(B)the twilight I longed for
    has been turned for me into trembling.
⁵^(C)They prepare the table,
    they spread the rugs,^[a]
    they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
    ^(D)oil the shield!

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Isaiah 21:5 Or they set the watchman

Isaiah 21:3-5

New International Version

³At this my body is racked with pain,^(A)
    pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;^(B)
I am staggered by what I hear,
    I am bewildered^(C) by what I see.
⁴My heart^(D) falters,
    fear makes me tremble;^(E)
the twilight I longed for
    has become a horror^(F) to me.