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SEPTEMBER 15

September 15
21:9 Babylon is fallen, is fallen! The watch-
man proclaimed the tragic end of mighty
Isaiah 21:1–22:25
Babylon, which initially fell to the Assyrians in
The burden against the Wilderness of 689 B.C. and again to the Persians in 539 B.C.Yet
21 the Sea. Isaiah’s prediction looked forward to the ulti-
mate fall of the great enemy of God,as verified
As whirlwinds in the South pass by John’s citation of this verse in Revelation
through, 14:8; 18:2 (Jer. 50:2; 51:8,49).
So it comes from the desert, from a
terrible land.
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A distressing vision is declared to me; The God of Israel,
The treacherous dealer deals I have declared to you.
treacherously,
And the plunderer plunders. 11 The burden against Dumah.
Go up, O Elam! He calls to me out of Seir,
Besiege, O Media! “Watchman, what of the night?
All its sighing I have made to cease.
Watchman, what of the night?”
3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain; 12 The watchman said,
Pangs have taken hold of me, like the “The morning comes, and also the night.
pangs of a woman in labor. If you will inquire, inquire;
I was distressed when I heard it; Return! Come back!”
I was dismayed when I saw it.
13 The burden against Arabia.
My heart wavered, fearfulness
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frightened me; In the forest in Arabia you will lodge,
The night for which I longed He O you traveling companies of
turned into fear for me. Dedanites.
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Prepare the table, O inhabitants of the land of Tema,
Set a watchman in the tower, Bring water to him who is thirsty;
Eat and drink. With their bread they met him who fled.
Arise, you princes, 15 For they fled from the swords, from
Anoint the shield! the drawn sword,
From the bent bow, and from the
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For thus has the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman, distress of war.
Let him declare what he sees.” 16 For thus the LORD has said to me: “Within
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And he saw a chariot with a pair of a year, according to the year of a hired man, all
horsemen, the glory of Kedar will fail; and the remain-
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A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of der of the number of archers, the mighty men
camels, of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for
And he listened earnestly with great the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.”
care.
8 Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord! The burden against the Valley of
I stand continually on the watchtower 22 Vision.
in the daytime; What ails you now, that you have all
I have sat at my post every night. gone up to the housetops,
And look, here comes a chariot of men
9 2 You who are full of noise,
with a pair of horsemen!” A tumultuous city, a joyous city?
Then he answered and said, Your slain men are not slain with the
“Babylon is fallen, is fallen! sword,
And all the carved images of her gods Nor dead in battle.
3 All your rulers have fled together;
He has broken to the ground.”
They are captured by the archers.
Oh, my threshing and the grain of my All who are found in you are bound
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floor! together;
That which I have heard from the LORD They have fled from afar.
of hosts, 4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me,
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