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    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 21
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    "n": 21,
    "bookSlug": "isaiah",
    "bookCode": "ISA",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ISA-21:1",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.1",
        "text": "The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ISA-21:2",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.2",
        "text": "A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ISA-21:3",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.3",
        "text": "Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ISA-21:4",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.4",
        "text": "My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ISA-21:5",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.5",
        "text": "They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ISA-21:6",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.6",
        "text": "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he seeth:"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ISA-21:7",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.7",
        "text": "and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ISA-21:8",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.8",
        "text": "And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ISA-21:9",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.9",
        "text": "and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ISA-21:10",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.10",
        "text": "O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ISA-21:11",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.11",
        "text": "The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ISA-21:12",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.12",
        "text": "The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ISA-21:13",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.13",
        "text": "The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ISA-21:14",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.14",
        "text": "Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ISA-21:15",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.15",
        "text": "For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ISA-21:16",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.16",
        "text": "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "ISA-21:17",
        "verseRef": "Isa.21.17",
        "text": "and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it."
      }
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