TOJB2011 ▾Yeshayah ▾21 ▾Yeshayah 211The massa (burden) concerning the Midbar Yam (desert by the sea) : As sufot (whirlwinds) in the Negev sweep through; so it cometh from the midbar, from eretz nora'ah.2A chazut kashah (harsh vision) is declared unto me; the boged (traitor) dealeth treacherously, and the shoded (destroyer) destroyeth. Go up, O Eilam; besiege, O Media; all the groaning she caused have I made to cease.3Therefore are my loins filled with pain; tzirim (pangs) have taken hold upon me, as the tzirim (pangs) of a woman in labor; I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.4My lev panted, fearfulness seized upon me; the neshef (twilight) of my longing hath become unto me as kharadah (shuddering horror) .5[They are] setting the shulchan, spreading the tzafit (dining carpet) , to eat, to drink; arise, ye sarim (princes) , and anoint the mogen.6For thus hath Adonoi said unto me, Go, post the metzapeh (watchman) , let him report what he seeth.7When he sees riders with a pair of parashim, donkey riders and camel riders, then he pays heed diligently with great care;8And the one seeing cried out, Adonoi, I stand continually on the mitzpeh (watchtower) in the daytime, and I am set in my mishmeret (guard duty) kol halailot (every night) ,9And, hinei, here cometh a merkavah with a man, a pair of parashim. And he answered and said, Bavel (Babylon) is fallen, is fallen; and all the pesilim (images) of her elohim (g-ds) hath been shattered on the ground.10O my threshed, and the grain of my goren (threshing floor) ; that which I have heard of Hashem Tzva'os Elohei Yisroel, have I declared unto you.11The massa (burden) of Dumah: One calleth to me out of Se'ir, Shomer (watchman) , what of the lailah? Shomer, what of the lailah?12The shomer said, The boker cometh, and also the lailah; if ye will inquire, inquire ye; shuvu (return) , come.13The massa (burden) concerning Arabia: In the ya'ar (forest) of Arabia shall ye encamp O ye caravans of Dedanim.14The inhabitants of Eretz Tema brought mayim to him that was tzameh (thirsty) , they met with their lechem him that fled.15For they fled from the charavot (swords) , from the drawn cherev, and from the bent keshet (bow) , and from the grievousness of milchamah (war) .16For thus hath Adonoi said unto me, Within a shanah (year) , according to the way a year is counted by a sakhir (hireling, hired servant) , all the kavod of Kedar shall end;17And the remainder of the mispar (number) of archers, the gibborim (mighty men) of the Bnei Kedar, shall be few; for Hashem Elohei Yisroel hath spoken.Yeshayah 20Yeshayah 22