Douay Rheims Bible

Isaiah 20

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

Return to Index

Chapter 21

1


 

  The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.  

 

 

--

2


 

  A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully : and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.  

 

 

--

3


 

  Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.  

 

 

--

4


 

  My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.  

 

 

--

5


 

  Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.  

 

 

--

6


 

  For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.  

 

 

--

7


 

  And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.  

 

 

--

8


 

  And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.  

 

 

--

9


 

  Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.  

 

 

--

10


 

  O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.  

 

 

--

11


 

  The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?  

 

 

--

12


 

  The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.  

 

 

--

13


 

  The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.  

 

 

--

14


 

  Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.  

 

 

--

15


 

  For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.  

 

 

--

16


 

  For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.  

 

 

--

17


 

  And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.  

 

 

--

Isaiah 22

 

 

 

 

HTMLBible Software - Public Domain Software by johnhurt.com

 


Other Items are Available At These Sites: