Isaiah 21
THE VISION OF THE DESERT. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, [even] from such a land,
Τὸ ὅραμα τῆς ἐρήμου.
[so] a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.
τὸ ὅραμα καὶ σκληρὸν ἀνηγγέλη μοι. ὁ ἀθετῶν ἀθετεῖ, ὁ ἀνομῶν ἀνομεῖ. ἐπ᾿ ἐμοὶ οἱ ᾿Ελαμῖται, καὶ οἱ πρέσβεις τῶν Περσῶν ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἔρχονται. νῦν στενάξω καὶ παρακαλέσω ἐμαυτόν.
Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see.
διὰ τοῦτο ἐνεπλήσθη ἡ ὀσφύς μου ἐκλύσεως, καὶ ὠδῖνες ἔλαβόν με ὡς τὴν τίκτουσαν· ἠδίκησα τοῦ μὴ ἀκοῦσαι, ἐσπούδασα τοῦ μὴ βλέπειν.
My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.
ἡ καρδία μου πλανᾶται, καὶ ἡ ἀνομία με βαπτίζει, ἡ ψυχή μου ἐφέστηκεν εἰς φόβον.
Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare [your] shields.
ἑτοίμασον τὴν τράπεζαν· φάγετε, πίετε· ἀναστάντες, οἱ ἄρχοντες, ἑτοιμάσατε θυρεούς.
For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.
ὅτι οὕτως εἶπε πρός με Κύριος· βαδίσας σεαυτῷ στῆσον σκοπὸν καὶ ὃ ἂν ἴδῃς ἀνάγγειλον·
And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.
καὶ εἶδον ἀναβάτας ἱππεῖς δύο καὶ ἀναβάτην ὄνου καὶ ἀναβάτην καμήλου. ἀκρόασαι ἀκρόασιν πολλὴν
Hearken with great attention, and call thou Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night:
Πρὸς ἐμὲ καλεῖ παρὰ τοῦ Σηείρ· φυλάσσετε ἐπάλξεις.
and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.
καὶ ἰδοὺ αὐτὸς ἔρχεται ἀναβάτης ξυνωρίδος. καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπε· πέπτωκε πέπτωκε Βαβυλών, καὶ πάντα τὰ ἀγάλματα αὐτῆς, καὶ τὰ χειροποίητα αὐτῆς συνετρίβησαν εἰς τὴν γῆν.
Hear, ye that are left, and ye that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts [which] the God of Israel has declared to us.
ἀκούσατε, οἱ καταλελειμμένοι καὶ οἱ ὀδυνώμενοι, ἀκούσατε ἃ ἤκουσα παρὰ Κυρίου σαβαώθ· ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀνήγγειλεν ἡμῖν.
I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest enquire, enquire, and dwell by me.
φυλάσσω τὸ πρωΐ καὶ τὴν νύκτα· ἐὰν ζητῇς, ζήτει καὶ παρ᾿ ἐμοὶ οἴκει·
Thou mayest lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Daedan.
ἐν τῷ δρυμῷ ἑσπέρας κοιμηθήσῃ ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ Δαιδάν.
Ye that dwell in the country of Thaeman, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;
εἰς συνάντησιν διψῶντι ὕδωρ φέρετε, οἱ ἐνοικοῦντες ἐν χώρᾳ Θαιμάν, ἄρτοις συναντᾶτε τοῖς φεύγουσι διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν πεφονευμένων
meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.
καὶ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν πλανωμένων καὶ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῆς μαχαίρας καὶ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν τοξευμάτων τῶν διατεταμένων καὶ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν πεπτωκότων ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ.
For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of an hireling, [and] the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail:
διότι οὕτως εἶπέ μοι Κύριος· ἔτι ἐνιαυτὸς ὡς ἐνιαυτὸς μισθωτοῦ, ἐκλείψει ἡ δόξα τῶν υἱῶν Κηδάρ,
and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken [it].
καὶ τὸ κατάλοιπον τῶν τοξευμάτων τῶν ἰσχυρῶν υἱῶν Κηδὰρ ἔσται ὀλίγον, ὅτι Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐλάλησεν.