A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. Treasury of Scripture grievous. Heb. hard Psalm 60:3 You have showed your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment. Proverbs 13:15 Good understanding gives favor: but the way of transgressors is hard. the treacherous Isaiah 24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness... Isaiah 33:1 Woe to you that spoil, and you were not spoiled; and deal treacherously... 1 Samuel 24:13 As said the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceeds from the wicked: but my hand shall not be on you. Jeremiah 51:44,48,49,53 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up... Revelation 13:10 He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword... go up Isaiah 13:2-4,17,18 Lift you up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles... Jeremiah 50:14,34 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all you that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows... Jeremiah 49:34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, Jeremiah 51:11,27,28 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes... Daniel 5:28 PERES; Your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. Daniel 8:20 The ram which you saw having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. all the Isaiah 14:1-3 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land... Isaiah 35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on their heads... Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you did show them no mercy... Psalm 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, said the LORD... Psalm 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power preserve you those that are appointed to die; Psalm 137:1-3 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion... Jeremiah 31:11,12,20,25 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he... Jeremiah 45:3 You did say, Woe is me now! for the LORD has added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. Jeremiah 51:3,4 Against him that bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifts himself up in his brigandine... Lamentations 1:22 Let all their wickedness come before you; and do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many... Micah 7:8-10 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me... Zechariah 1:15,16 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased...
Context Babylon is Fallen
1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. 2A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman that travails: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure has he turned into fear to me. 5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield. 6For thus has the LORD said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees. 7And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he listened diligently with much heed: 8And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: 9And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken to the ground. 10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully : and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.
Darby Bible Translation
A grievous vision is declared unto me: the treacherous dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, Elam! besiege, Media! All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
King James Bible
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Young's Literal Translation
A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.
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