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21:1  A message concerning the pasture by the Sea. "Like whirlwinds in the Negev sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a distant land.
21:2  A dire vision has been announced to me: the traitor betrays, and the plunderer takes loot. Get up, Elam! Attack, Media! I am putting a stop to all the groaning she has caused.
21:3  Therefore my body is racked with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am so upset that I cannot hear; I am so frightened that I cannot see while I'm reeling around.
21:4  And as for my heart, horror has terrified me; the twilight I longed for has started to make me tremble.
21:5  They set the tables; they spread the carpets; they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers! Oil the shields!"
21:6  For this is what the LORD told me: "Go post a lookout. Have him report what he sees.
21:7  When he sees chariots, each man with a pair of horses, riders on donkeys or riders on camels, let him pay attention, full attention."
21:8  Then the lookout shouted: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and I am stationed at my post throughout the night.
21:9  Look! Here come riders, each man with a pair of horses!" They're shouting out the answer: "Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and they have shattered all the images of her gods on the ground!
21:10  O my downtrodden people, my wall! I'll tell you what I have heard from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel."
21:11  A message concerning Dumah. "Someone is calling to me from Seir: 'Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?'
21:12  The watchman replies: 'Morning is coming, but also the night. If you want to ask, then ask; come back again.'"
21:13  A message concerning Arabia. "You will camp in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of the Dedanites.
21:14  Bring water for the thirsty, you who live in the land of Tema. Meet the fugitive with bread,
21:15  For he has fled from swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle."
21:16  For this is what the LORD is saying to me: "Within three years, according to the years of a contract worker, the pomp of Kedar will come to an end.
21:17  And there will be few archers, those who are descendants of Kedar, who survive, because the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken."