1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.

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Isaiah 14:23, Isaiah 14:23, Jeremiah 51:42, Isaiah 13:1, Jeremiah 51:42

2A 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.

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Jeremiah 49:34, Isaiah 33:1, Jeremiah 49:34, Isaiah 33:1, Isaiah 24:16

3Therefore 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.

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Isaiah 13:8, Isaiah 13:8, Psalms 48:6, Isaiah 26:17, Psalms 48:6

4My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

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Esther 7:6, Esther 7:10, Jeremiah 51:39, Isaiah 5:11, Isaiah 5:14

5They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

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Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 51:39, Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 51:39, Jeremiah 51:11

6For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth:

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Ezekiel 33:2, Ezekiel 33:7, Habakkuk 2:1, Habakkuk 2:2, Ezekiel 33:2

7and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.

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Isaiah 21:9, Isaiah 21:9, Isaiah 37:24, Hebrews 2:1, Isaiah 37:24

8And 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;

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Habakkuk 2:1, Habakkuk 2:2, Habakkuk 2:1, Habakkuk 2:2, Psalms 127:1

9and, 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.

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Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:2, Jeremiah 51:8, Revelation 14:8, Jeremiah 51:8

10O 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.

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Jeremiah 51:33, Jeremiah 51:33, Micah 4:13, Micah 4:13, Isaiah 41:15

11The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

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Genesis 25:14, Genesis 25:14, Obadiah 1:1, Obadiah 1:16, Obadiah 1:1

12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.

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Acts 17:30, Acts 17:32, Acts 17:30, Acts 17:32, Acts 2:37

13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.

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Jeremiah 25:23, Jeremiah 25:24, Jeremiah 25:23, Jeremiah 25:24, 1 Chronicles 1:32

14Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.

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Genesis 25:15, Job 6:19, Genesis 25:15, Job 6:19, Proverbs 25:21

15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

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Job 6:19, Job 6:20, Job 6:19, Job 6:20, Isaiah 13:14

16For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;

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Isaiah 16:14, Psalms 120:5, Isaiah 60:7, Isaiah 16:14, Psalms 120:5

17and 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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Numbers 23:19, Zechariah 1:6, Isaiah 1:20, Numbers 23:19, Zechariah 1:6