Isaiah 21:4-9
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4 My heart [a]reels; [b]horror terrorizes me;
The twilight I longed for has been (A)turned for me into trembling.
5 They (B)set the table, they [c]spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, commanders, oil the shields,”
6 For thus the Lord says to me,
“Go, station the lookout, let him (C)declare what he sees.
7 Indeed, he shall see (D)riders, horsemen in pairs,
Riders of donkeys, riders of camels,
So let him pay close attention, very close attention.”
8 Then [d]the lookout called,
“(E)O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower,
And I am stationed every night at my guard post.
9 Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one answered and said, “(F)Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the (G)graven images of her gods [e]are shattered on the ground.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 21:4 Lit wandered
- Isaiah 21:4 Lit shuddering
- Isaiah 21:5 Or spread out the rugs; or possibly they arranged the seating
- Isaiah 21:8 As in DSS; M.T. he called like a lion
- Isaiah 21:9 Lit he has shattered to the earth
Isaiah 47:9
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9 But these (A)two things will come on you (B)suddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many (C)sorceries,
In spite of the great might of your spells.
Jeremiah 51:11
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11 (A)Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!
Yahweh has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes
Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it;
For it is the (B)vengeance of Yahweh, vengeance for His temple.
Jeremiah 51:31
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31 One (A)runner runs to meet [a]another,
And one (B)messenger to meet [b]another,
To give a message to the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:31 Lit runner
- Jeremiah 51:31 Or messenger; lit announcer
Jeremiah 51:39
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39 When they become heated up, I will set before them their feast
And (A)make them drunk, that they may exult
And may (B)sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares Yahweh.
Jeremiah 51:57
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57 “I will (A)make her princes and her wise men drunk,
Her governors, her prefects, and her mighty men,
That they may sleep a (B)perpetual sleep and not wake up,”
(C)Declares the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts.
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