Isaiah 21 (NET)

Isaiah 21:1¹This is an oracle about the wilderness by the Sea: Like strong winds blowing in the south, one invades from the wilderness, from a land that is feared.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 14:23Isa 13:1Jer 51:42Zech 9:14Isa 13:20-22Isa 17:1Dan 11:40Ezek 31:12Isa 13:4-5Job 37:9

Isaiah 21:2²I have received a distressing message: “The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 33:1Jer 49:34Isa 24:16Ps 60:3Dan 5:28Rev 13:101 Sam 24:13Dan 8:20Isa 13:17-18Isa 13:2-4

Isaiah 21:3³For this reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 13:8Isa 26:17Ps 48:61 Thess 5:3Isa 16:11Jer 48:41Mic 4:9-10Dan 5:5-6Deut 28:67Hab 3:16

Isaiah 21:4⁴My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 21:34-361 Sam 25:36-382 Sam 13:28-29Dan 5:1Dan 5:5Deut 28:67Esth 5:12Esth 7:6-10Isa 5:11-14Jer 51:39

Isaiah 21:5⁵Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 51:11Jer 51:39Jer 51:57Dan 5:1-51 Cor 15:32Isa 13:17-18Isa 13:2Isa 22:13-14Isa 45:1-3Jer 51:27-28

Isaiah 21:6⁶For this is what the Lord has told me: “Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 33:2-7Ezek 3:17Hab 2:1-22 Kgs 9:17-20Isa 62:6Jer 51:12-13

Isaiah 21:7⁷When he sees chariots, teams of horses, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, very alert.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 21:9Heb 2:1Isa 37:24

Isaiah 21:8⁸Then the guard cries out: “On the watchtower, O Lord, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:1-21 Pet 5:8Isa 5:29Isa 56:10Isa 62:6Jer 25:38Jer 4:7Jer 49:19Jer 50:44Ps 127:1

Isaiah 21:9⁹Look what’s coming! A charioteer, a team of horses.” When questioned, he replies, “Babylon has fallen, fallen! All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 18:2Jer 51:8Rev 14:8Jer 51:44Isa 13:19Isa 14:4Isa 46:1-2Jer 50:2-3Jer 50:29Jer 50:38

Isaiah 21:10¹⁰O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, what I have heard from the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, I have reported to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 51:33Mic 4:132 Kgs 13:7Ezek 3:17-19Isa 41:15-16Matt 3:121 Kgs 22:14Acts 20:26-27Hab 3:12

Isaiah 21:11¹¹This is an oracle about Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:14Obad 1:1-16Amos 1:6Joel 3:191 Chr 1:30Deut 2:5Ezek 35:1-15Gen 32:3Isa 21:6Isa 34:1-17

Isaiah 21:12¹²The watchman replies, “Morning is coming, but then night. If you want to ask, ask; come back again.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:30-32Acts 2:37-38Acts 17:19-20Ezek 14:1-6Ezek 18:30-32Ezek 7:10Ezek 7:12Ezek 7:5-7Isa 17:14Isa 55:7

Isaiah 21:13¹³This is an oracle about Arabia: In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night, you Dedanite caravans.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 25:23-241 Chr 1:32Ezek 27:15Gen 25:31 Chr 1:91 Kgs 10:15Ezek 27:20-21Gal 4:25Isa 13:1Isa 13:20

Isaiah 21:14¹⁴Bring out some water for the thirsty. You who live in the land of Tema, bring some food for the fugitives.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:15Job 6:19Prov 25:21Rom 12:201 Chr 1:301 Pet 4:9Isa 16:3-4Judg 8:4-8

Isaiah 21:15¹⁵For they flee from the swords— from the drawn sword, and from the battle-ready bow, and from the severity of the battle.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 6:19-20Isa 13:14

Isaiah 21:16¹⁶For this is what the Lord has told me: “Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 16:14Isa 60:7Ps 120:5Song 1:5Ezek 27:21Jer 49:28Gen 25:13Isa 42:111 Chr 1:29Job 7:1

Isaiah 21:17¹⁷Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left.” Indeed, the Lord God of Israel has spoken.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:19Zech 1:6Isa 1:20Matt 24:35Isa 10:18-19Isa 17:4-5Jer 44:29Ps 107:39