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This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
21 A message for the wilderness beside the ocean:
It comes like whirlwinds sweeping through the desert,
coming from a nation that induces terror.
2 I’ve been given a distressing vision.
The deceitful deceive and the destroyer destroys.
I’ll make all her groaning come to an end.
3 That’s why my stomach tightens.
Pangs of anguish seize me like a woman giving birth.
I’m stunned by what I hear.
≈ I’m terrified by what I see.
4 My heart falters—I’m overwhelmed and I shudder.
≈ The twilight that I longed for has turned into trembling.
5 They’re setting the table and spreading out the rugs.
Take action you officials. Oil up your shields.
6 My master has told me to station a watchman who’ll tell what he sees. 7 When he sees a rider or a pair of horses, or someone riding a camel or a donkey, he must pay attention—very careful attention.
8 Then the watchman[fn] calls out,
“My master, I’ve stood day after day on this watchtower,
≈ and spent the nights stationed at my post, 9 so listen, a rider is coming with a pair of horses, and he brings the news that Babylon has fallen, yes fallen, and all its carved idols lie broken on the ground.”[ref]
10 Oh my down-trodden people who’ve been trampled all over.
I’ve passed on to you all what I heard from Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh.
21:8 We follow the Dead Sea Scrolls here—the Hebrew has ‘a lion’.
Rev 14:8:
8 Then a second messenger followed, saying, “The powerful Babylon has fallen into ruins, the city that caused all the nations to drink from the wine of the passion of her immorality!”[ref]
18:2:
2 He called out in a loud voice, saying, “The mighty Babylon has fallen and become a place for demons to live, and a prison for evil spirits and for every kind of scavenging and detestable bird.[fn][ref]
18:2 There’s some manuscript variations here, and so some translations also mention wild animals.
