Isaiah 21:1-3

Common English Bible

Like whirlwinds sweeping through the arid southern plain,
    it comes from the desert, from a fearsome land.
² A harsh vision was proclaimed to me:
    The betrayer betrays, and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media!
    Put an end to all her groaning.
³ Therefore, I’m shaken to my core in anguish.
    Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.
I’m too bent over to hear,
    too dismayed to see.