1The oracle of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negev sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome 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 to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing.

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

3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.

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

4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for 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, you princes, oil the shield!

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

6For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

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

7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness."

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

8He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

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

9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

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

10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to 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 calls to 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 comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."

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

13The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.

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

14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met 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, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

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

16For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will 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, will be few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken it."

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