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The Burden Against Babylon
Isaiah 21:1-5
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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.
2
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.
3
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.
4
Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,
5
Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,
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