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¹The burden of the forsaken sea. As whirlwinds come from the south-west, it cometh from the desert, from the horrible land.

²An hard revelation is told to me; he that is unfaithful, doeth unfaithfully; and he that is a destroyer, destroyeth. Thou Elam, go up, and thou Media, beseech or besiege; I made all the wailing thereof for to cease.

³Therefore my loins be filled with sorrow; anguish wielded me, as the anguish of a woman travailing of child; I fell down, when I heard; I was troubled, when I saw.

⁴Mine heart faded, darknesses astonied me; Babylon, my darling, is set or put to me into miracle.

⁵Set thou a board, behold thou into a looking place; rise, ye princes, eating and drinking, take ye the shield.

⁶For why the Lord said these things to me, Go thou, and set a looker; and tell he, whatever thing he seeth.

⁷And he saw the chariot of two horsemen, the rider of an ass, and the rider of a camel; and he beheld diligently with much looking,

⁸and he cried as a lion, I stand continually by day on the looking place of the Lord, and I stand by all nights on my keeping.

⁹Lo! this cometh, a man-rider of a cart of horsemen. And Isaiah cried, and said, Babylon fell down, fell down; and all the graven images of gods thereof be all-broken into the earth.

¹⁰My threshing, and the daughter of my cornfloor, I have told to you what things I heard of the Lord of hosts, of God of Israel.

¹¹The burden of Dumah. It crieth from Seir to me, Keeper, what hour of the night? keeper, what hour of the night?

¹²The keeper said, The morrowtide cometh, and night; if ye seek, seek ye, and be ye converted, and come ye.

¹³The burden of Arabia. In the forest at eventide ye shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.

¹⁴Ye that dwell in the land of the south, run, and bear water to the thirsty; and run ye with loaves to him that fleeth.

¹⁵For they fled from the face of swords, from the face of the sword nighing, from the face of the bow bent, from the face of the grievous battle.

¹⁶For the Lord saith these things to me, Yet in one year, as in the year of an hired man, and all the glory of Kedar shall be taken away.

¹⁷And the remnants of the number of strong archers of the sons of Kedar shall be made less; for why the Lord God of Israel spake.