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Isaiah 21:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. "
Isaiah 21:15
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13 The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.
14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
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Isaiah 21:1
"The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land."
Isaiah 21:2
"A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing."
Isaiah 21:3
"Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see."
Isaiah 21:4
"My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me."
Isaiah 21:5
"They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!"
Isaiah 21:6
"For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees."
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