1 The burden of the wilderness the Sea: Like whirlwinds in the Negev passing through, it comes from the wilderness, from a fearsome land.

2 A harsh vision is declared to me: “The treacherous one deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All her sighing I have made cease.”

3 Upon thus my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold of me like the pangs of one giving birth. I am writhing from hearing; I am disturbed from seeing.

4 My heart staggers, a shuddering terrifies me; the twilight of my desire has been set for me into fear,

Isaiah 21:1-4, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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