blessing in the midst of the earth; 25for that the Lord of hosts hath blessed him, saying: 'Blessed be Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Mine inheritance.'
20In the year that Tartan came into Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; 2at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3And the Lord said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia, 4so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5And they shall be dismayed and ashamed, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?'
21The burden of the wilderness of the sea.
- As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on,
- It cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.
- 2A 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.'
- 3Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion;
- Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail;
- I am bent so that I cannot hear;
- I am affrighted so that I cannot see.
- 4My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me;
- The twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.
- 5They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink—
- 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'
- 6For thus hath the Lord said unto me:
- Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!
- 7And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs,
- A troop of asses, a troop of camels,
- He shall hearken diligently with much heed.
- 8And he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O Lord,
- I stand continually in the day-time,
- And I am set in my ward all the nights.'
- 9And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs.
- And he spoke and said:
- 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
- And all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.'
- 10O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor,
- That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
- The God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11The burden of Dumah.
- One calleth unto me out of Seir:
- 'Watchman, what of the night?
- Watchman, what of the night?'
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