a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desireמִדְבַּר
midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)יָ֑ם
yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the southכְּסוּפ֤וֹת
çûwphâh
like/as — a hurricaneבַּנֶּ֨גֶב֙
negeb
in/with/by — the south (from its drought); specifically, the Negeb or southern district of Judah, occasionally, Egypt (as south to Palestine)לַֽחֲלֹ֔ף
châlaph
to/for — properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or changeמִמִּדְבָּ֣ר
midbâr
from — a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)בָּ֔א
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)מֵאֶ֖רֶץ
ʼerets
from — the earth (at large, or partitively a land)נוֹרָאָֽה
yârêʼ
to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten
Isaiah 21:1 · Masoretic Text (WLC)
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The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning the Desert of the Sea (the seasonally flooded plains just south of Babylon): As windstorms in the Negev (the South) sweep through, So it (God’s judgment) comes from the desert, from [the hostile armies of] a terrifying land.
This is the book's second Babylon oracle after chapters 13-14, told this time from inside a watchman's own vision rather than as direct third-person narration.
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Today's memory verse · from this session
“The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning the Desert of the Sea (the seasonally flooded plains just south of Babylon): As windstorms in the Negev (the South) sweep through, So it (God’s judgment) comes from the desert, from [the hostile armies of] a terrifying land.”
This is the book's second Babylon oracle after chapters 13-14, told this time from inside a watchman's own vision rather than as direct third-person narration.