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Look! Here comes a man in a chariot!
    It’s being pulled by a team of horses.
He’s calling out the news,
    ‘Babylon has fallen! It has fallen!
All the statues of its gods
    lie broken in pieces on the ground!’ ”

10 My people, you have been crushed
    like grain on a threshing floor.
But now I’m telling you the good news I’ve heard.
    It comes from the Lord who rules over all.
    He is the God of Israel.

A Prophecy Against Edom

11 Here is a prophecy against Edom that the Lord gave me.

Someone is calling out to me from the land of Seir. He says,
    “Guard, when will the night be over?
    Guard, how soon will it end?”

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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.