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[1]The burden of the desert sea. As the whirlwinds in the south used to pass from the wilderness, so shall it come from the horrible land.
[2]A grievous vision was showed unto me, The transgressor against a transgressor, and the destroyer against a destroyer. Go up Elam, besiege Media: I have caused all the mourning thereof to cease.
[3]Therefore are my loins filled with sorrow: sorrows have taken me as the sorrows of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down when I heard it, and I was amazed when I saw it.
[4]Mine heart failed: fearfulnesses troubled me: the night of my pleasures hath he turned into fear unto me.
[5]Prepare thou the table: watch in the watchtower: eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.
[6]For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, to tell what he seeth.
[7]And he saw a chariot with two horsemen: a chariot of an ass, and a chariot of a camel: and he hearkened and took diligent heed.
[8]And he cried, A lion: my lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the day time, and I am set in my watch every night:
[9]And behold, this man's chariot cometh with two horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen: it is fallen, and all the images of her gods hath he broken unto the ground.
[10]O my threshing, and the corn of my floor. That which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I showed unto you.
[11]The burden of Dumah. He calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what was in the night? Watchman, what was in the night?
[12]The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night. If ye will ask, inquire: return and come.
[13]The burden against Arabia. In the forest of Arabia shall ye tarry all night, even in the ways of Dedanim.
[14]O inhabitants of the land of Tema, bring forth water to meet the thirsty, and prevent him that fleeth with his bread.
[15]For they flee from the drawn swords, even from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
[16]For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Yet a year according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail.
[17]And the residue of the number of the strong archers of the sons of Kedar shall be few: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.
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