{"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/ylt/isaiah/21","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T09:15:47.912Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","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. 'Like hurricanes in the south for passing through, From the wilderness it hath come, From a fearful land."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Therefore filled have been my loins with great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For thus said the Lord unto me: 'Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.'"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And he hath seen a chariot — a couple of horsemen, The rider of an ass, the rider of a camel, And he hath given attention — He hath increased attention!"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And he crieth — a lion, 'On a watch-tower my lord, I am standing continually by day, And on my ward I am stationed whole nights."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And lo, this, the chariot of a man is coming, A couple of horsemen.' And he answereth and saith: 'Fallen, fallen hath Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods He hath broken to the earth."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!'"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The burden of Dumah. Unto me is one calling from Seir 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The watchman hath said, 'Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.'"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The burden on Arabia. In a forest in Arabia ye lodge, O travellers of Dedanim."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For thus said the Lord unto me: 'Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath spoken!'"}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 21 (YLT)","markdown":"[Isaiah 21](https://primebible.com/ylt/isaiah/21)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/isaiah/21 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}