| 1절 | The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea. As whirlwinds in the South pass through, So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
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| 2절 | A distressing vision is declared to me; The treacherous dealer deals treacherously, And the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All its sighing I have made to cease.
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| 3절 | Therefore my loins are filled with pain; Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was distressed when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it.
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| 4절 | My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me; The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.
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| 5절 | Prepare the table, Set a watchman in the tower, Eat and drink. Arise, you princes, Anoint the shield!
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| 6절 | For thus has the Lord said to me： \"Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.\"
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| 7절 | And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels, And he listened earnestly with great care.
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| 8절 | Then he cried, \"A lion, my Lord! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night.
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| 9절 | And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!\" Then he answered and said, \"Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground.\"
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| 10절 | Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I have declared to you.
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| 11절 | The burden against Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, \"Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?\"
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| 12절 | The watchman said, \"The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; Return! Come back!\"
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| 13절 | The burden against Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites.
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| 14절 | O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Bring water to him who is thirsty; With their bread they met him who fled.
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| 15절 | For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.
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| 16절 | For thus the LORD has said to me： \"Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of Kedar will fail;
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| 17절 | \"and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.\"
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