Isaiah 21

¹The burden of the desert of the sea.

²A grievous vision is declared unto me;

³Therefore are my loins filled with pain:

⁴My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me:

⁵Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink:

⁶For thus hath the Lord said unto me,

⁷And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen,

⁸And he cried, A lion:

⁹And behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.

¹⁰O my threshing, and the corn of my floor:

¹¹The burden of Dumah.

¹²The watchman said,

¹³The burden upon Arabia.

¹⁴The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty,

¹⁵For they fled from the swords,

¹⁶For thus hath the Lord said unto me,

¹⁷And the residue of the number of archers,