{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/21","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:03:23.587Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":21,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":20,"nextChapter":22,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For the Lord said to me, |Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.|"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He cried like a lion: |Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.| He answered, |Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!| That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, |Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?|"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The watchman said, |The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.|"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For the Lord said to me, |Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 21 (WEB)","markdown":"[Isaiah 21](https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/21)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/21 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}