Key Verse Spotlight
Isaiah 21:4 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. {heart...: or, mind wandered} {turned: Heb. put}”
Isaiah 21:4
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. {grievous: Heb. hard}
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing {of it}; I was dismayed at the seeing {of it}.
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. {heart...: or, mind wandered} {turned: Heb. put}
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, {and} anoint the shield.
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
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