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Look! Here come riders,[a]
    each man with a pair of horses!”
        They’re shouting out the answer:
“Babylon has fallen, has fallen,
    and they have shattered
        all the images of her gods[b] on the ground!
10 O my downtrodden people,[c] my wall![d]
    I’ll tell you what I have heard
        from the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel.”

A Message about Dumah

11 A message[e] concerning Dumah.

“Someone is calling to me from Seir:
    ‘Watchman, what is left of the night?[f]
        Watchman, what is left of the night?’[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads chariot; cf. v. 7
  2. Isaiah 21:9 So 1QIsaa; LXX reads all the images of her gods are shattered; MT reads He has shattered all the images of her gods
  3. Isaiah 21:10 1QIsaa lacks people
  4. Isaiah 21:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads my threshing floor
  5. Isaiah 21:11 Lit. An oracle
  6. Isaiah 21:11 Or What time of night?
  7. Isaiah 21:11 Or What time of night?

Look, here comes a man in a chariot(A)
    with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
    ‘Babylon(B) has fallen,(C) has fallen!
All the images of its gods(D)
    lie shattered(E) on the ground!’”

10 My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,(F)
    I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
    from the God of Israel.

A Prophecy Against Edom

11 A prophecy against Dumah[a]:(G)

Someone calls to me from Seir,(H)
    “Watchman, what is left of the night?
    Watchman, what is left of the night?”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:11 Dumah, a wordplay on Edom, means silence or stillness.