Isaïe

  • God Commands That Babylon Be Taken

  • |Isaïe 21:1| The [mournful, inspired] oracle (1 a burden to be carried) concerning the Desert of the2 Sea (the seasonally flooded plains just south of Babylon):
    As windstorms in the Negev (the South) sweep through, So it (God's judgment) comes from the desert, from [the hostile armies of] a terrifying land.


  • |Isaïe 21:2| A harsh vision has been shown to me; The treacherous one deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media! All the groaning [caused by Babylon's ruthless oppressions] I [the LORD] have brought to an end.


  • |Isaïe 21:3| Therefore [continues Isaiah] my loins are filled with anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in childbirth; I am so bent and bewildered that I cannot hear, I am so terrified that I cannot see.


  • |Isaïe 21:4| My mind reels, horror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been3 turned into fear and trembling for me.


  • |Isaïe 21:5| They set the table [for the doomed banquet], they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; "Rise up, captains [of Belshazzar's court], oil your shields [for battle, for your enemy is at the gates]!"

  • |Isaïe 21:6| This is what the Lord says to me,
    "Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.


  • |Isaïe 21:7| "When he sees a chariot, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys and a train of camels, Let him pay attention and listen closely, very closely."

  • |Isaïe 21:8| And the lookout called like a lion,
    "O Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower by day, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.


  • |Isaïe 21:9| "Now look! Here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs." And one said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the carved images of her gods are shattered on the ground."


  • |Isaïe 21:10| O my threshed people [Judah, who must be judged and trampled down by Babylon], my afflicted of the threshing floor. What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I have [joyfully] announced to you [that Babylon is to fall].



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