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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.
