Isaiah 21:1-4 ▼

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.

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.

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.

4 And as for my heart, horror has terrified me; the twilight I longed for has started to make me tremble.