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    Fallen, Fallen Is Babylon
    1The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea.
    As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on,
    it comes from the wilderness,
    from a terrible land.
    2A stern vision is told to me;
    the traitor betrays,
    and the destroyer destroys.
    Go up, O Elam;
    lay siege, O Media;
    all the sighing she has caused
    I bring to an end.
    3Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
    pangs have seized me,
    like the pangs of a woman in labor;
    I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
    I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
    4My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
    the twilight I longed for
    has been turned for me into trembling.
    5They prepare the table,
    they spread the rugs,21:5 Or they set the watchman
    they eat, they drink.
    Arise, O princes;
    oil the shield!
    6For thus the Lord said to me:
    “Go, set a watchman;
    let him announce what he sees.
    7When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
    riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
    let him listen diligently,
    very diligently.”
    8Then he who saw cried out:21:8 Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac; Masoretic Text Then a lion cried out, or Then he cried out like a lion
    “Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
    continually by day,
    and at my post I am stationed
    whole nights.
    9And behold, here come riders,
    horsemen in pairs!”
    And he answered,
    “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
    and all the carved images of her gods
    he has shattered to the ground.”
    10O my threshed and winnowed one,
    what I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel, I announce to you.
    11The oracle concerning Dumah.
    One is calling to me from Seir,
    “Watchman, what time of the night?
    Watchman, what time of the night?”
    12The watchman says:
    “Morning comes, and also the night.
    If you will inquire, inquire;
    come back again.”
    13The oracle concerning Arabia.
    In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge,
    O caravans of Dedanites.
    14To the thirsty bring water;
    meet the fugitive with bread,
    O inhabitants of the land of Tema.
    15For they have fled from the swords,
    from the drawn sword,
    from the bent bow,
    and from the press of battle.
    16For thus the Lord said to me, “Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
    17And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”

    This publication contains the Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.ESV Text Edition: 2016. 
    The ESV®text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers.
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