---
title: "Isaiah 21 — World English Bible | Favorite Scriptures"
description: "Read Isaiah 21 in the World English Bible. Free Bible reading, no account needed. Browse books and chapters, then save favorite passages in your personal library."
last_updated: "2026-10-08"
doc_version: "1"
language: "en"
canonical: "https://favoritescriptures.com/bible/isaiah/21"
---

[Home](/)/[Bible](/bible)/[Isaiah](/bible/isaiah)/21

World English Bible

# Isaiah 21

[1](#verse-1) The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

[2](#verse-2) A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

[3](#verse-3) Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.

[4](#verse-4) My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

[5](#verse-5) They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

[6](#verse-6) For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

[7](#verse-7) When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

[8](#verse-8) He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

[9](#verse-9) Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

[10](#verse-10) You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

[11](#verse-11) The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

[12](#verse-12) The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”

[13](#verse-13) The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.

[14](#verse-14) They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

[15](#verse-15) For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

[16](#verse-16) For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

[17](#verse-17) and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”

[← Isaiah 20](/bible/isaiah/20)[Isaiah 22 →](/bible/isaiah/22)

World English Bible · Public domain

## Keep what speaks to you.

Create a free library to save passages, highlight verses, and keep your study notes together.

[Start your free library](/login?mode=signup)

## Sitemap

See the [complete sitemap](/sitemap.md).