23:021:002 A grievous vision is declared unto me;
the treacherous dealer
dealeth
treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up,
O
Elam:
besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made
to
cease.
23:021:003 Therefore are my loins filled with pain:
pangs have taken hold
upon
me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I
was bowed
down
at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing
of it.
23:021:004 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted
me: the night of my
pleasure
hath he turned into fear unto me.
23:021:005 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower,
eat, drink: arise,
ye
princes, and anoint the shield.
23:021:006 For thus hath the lord said unto me,
Go, set a watchman, let
him
declare what he seeth.
23:021:007 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen,
a chariot of
asses,
and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently
with
much heed:
23:021:008 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand
continually upon the
watchtower
in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights:
23:021:009 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men,
with a couple of
horsemen.
And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is
fallen;
and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken
unto
the ground.
23:021:010 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor:
that which I have
heard
of the lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have
I declared
unto
you.
23:021:011 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to
me out of Seir, Watchman,
what
of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
23:021:012 The watchman said, The morning cometh,
and also the night: if
ye
will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
23:021:013 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest
in Arabia shall ye
lodge,
O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
23:021:014 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought
water to him that
was
thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
23:021:015 For they fled from the swords, from the
drawn sword, and from
the
bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
23:021:016 For thus hath the lord said unto me,
Within a year, according
to
the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar
shall
fail:
23:021:017 And the residue of the number of archers,
the mighty men of
the
children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the
lord God
of
Israel hath spoken it.
23:022:001 The burden of the valley of vision.
What aileth thee now, that
thou
art wholly gone up to the housetops?


