1: Desert-Sea’s (Arab peninsula) burden:
Like a whirlwind in Negev transitioning in the wilderness, coming from a fearful land,
2: a harsh vision presented to me: the deceivingly deceiving and the desolating desolater goes up.
Beseige Elam (SW Iran).
I cause all groaning in Madayee (Mede – tribes of Japheth in north Persia, Zagros mountains, its capital Hamadan where Esther and Mordechai’s tombs are, also much later is a Mahdi 12th imam supposed to be Shia messiah who died without issue and his birthday is still celebrated in spring in Qom, Iran and a Mahdi end-of-age messiah is expected by both Shias and Sunnis) to stop/complete (shvath).
https://endtimebible.com/commentary/isaiah21/ Dan Gibson: Let the stones speak
https://download-counter.nabataea.workers.dev/download/LTSS_eBook.pdf describes a 700AD history* but current Saudi attacks on Iran with a view to regime change hold equally true
3: And then my hips had been filled writhing (kal-kala – an ominous double ‘kul’ – writhe). Herald-pangs had taken hold of me like childbearing herald-pangs.
I had been twisted from hearing.
I had been terrified from seeing.
4: My heart had vacillated / palpitated. Horror had cloaked me. The/time of my twilight desires had been set to anxiety for me.
5: Setting up the table, Laying out the spread, the princes eating, drinking, rising up. Anoint the shield. Phew!
6: For thus had the Lord said to me: Walk and take a stand.
The spy-er makes a declaration of what he sees:
7: And he had seen a chariot, a pair of horses, a rider (on) a male donkey, a rider (on) a camel.
And he had been made to attentively attend with great attention.
(Matt 13:16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear)
8: And a lion upon a watchtower calls out, “My Lord, I am perpetually taking a stand in a day and I am presenting at my post on all nights.
9: And behold – this is coming: a chariot, a man, a pair of horses. And he had replied, Babel*! She had fallen! She had fallen!
And he had shattered all engraven images of her gods to the ground.
10: My threshing and the son of my threshing floor (goreni – like girani in Kannada, threshing = judgement = John 5:22,27 – The Father has given all judgement to the Son, given him authority to judge because He is the Son of Man) which I had heard from the/time of Yehoweh of Parliaments, God of Israel, I had caused to declare to you.
Pause and think about that.
11: Dumah’s (silence, Ishmael’s son, North central Saudi – Dumat al Jandal) burden over me:
A watcher from Seir (Deut 2:4,5 – Yehoweh gave Esau land from Mt Seir and told Israel not to meddle with the Edomites, where Esau settled Gen 36:8 – southern border of Israel, Herod Antipater was from an Idumean family forcibly converted to Judaism by John Hyrcanus in late 2BC ?129BC Josephus Antiquities 14.1.3, first mosques faced towards biblical Seir in southern Jordan. Mecca did not become a focal point of Islam until after the second Islamic civil war ) is calling, What watching at night? What at night?
12: The watcher had said he had come in the morning and also at night.
If he still inquiringly inquires and turns back and comes, pause and think about that.
13: Burden in Arab (from erev – evening, North Saudi): You lodge overnight in a forest in Arab, caravans of Dedanites (tradesmen, town next to Teman in Saudi),
14:. Dwellers of the land of Tema (from yamin/ right hand/ south, south West Jordan, northwest Saudi, traditionally academic, Ma’an in Saudi today, Jesus as Judge goes from Teman to Botsrah Is 63:1, Amos 1:12, Obadiah 1:9 )
chancing upon the thirsty, cause to bring water*. You had met the escaper with his bread.
15: For they had fled from the face of swords, from the face of an abandoned sword, from the face of a directed/aimed bow and from the face of burdensome (kevod from kavod) war ( By 2024 Jordan hosted over 3.7 million refugees from more than 40 countries, making one-third of its population ( https://www.jordanpulse.com/article/4642 ) .
Pause and think about that!
16: For thus says the Lord to me, within a year (revolution), like a year (revolution / term?) of an employee, and He has completed/ finished off the glory (kavod) of Kedar (dusky, Ishmael’s son, Bedouin, the prophet Mohammed is a descendant of Kedar).
17: And the remnant numbers of mighty archers / soldiers of the sons of Kedar reduce /diminish.
For Yehoweh God of Israel had spoken.
Pause and think about that!
Prayer:
Across the ages Yehoweh, Your Word speaks true. Those who chose wealth, pride and power over you end up infighting and You diminish them in a day/year/term – through history. May You be glorified and man’s glories diminish. Amen.
*Arabs bringing water to the invading Babylonian army under Cambyses II, (6th century BCE). Cambyses was an Achemenid king of Persia (reigned 529–522 BCE), who conquered Egypt in 525 BC. He was the eldest son of King Cyrus II the Great, by Cassandane, daughter of a fellow Achemenid. This event seems to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah 21:13,14,15, written between 742 BCE and 687 BCE or some 200 years earlier.
In this account, an Arabian leader helps Cambyses when he is trying to cross the Arabian desert. The Arabs of central Arabia (Teyma was a leading city) assisted Cambyses on his invasion of Egypt by bringing him water using caravans of camels with water skins. This is the one time that caravans are mentioned brining just water. Caravans usually carried trade items of great value. Loading hundreds or thousands of camels with water is unknown in Arabian history, except for this one time. Isaiah 21:14 mentions Teyma bringing water to him that was thirsty. Below is an accounting of this by the historian Herodotus.
Having then pledged himself to the messengers who had come from Cambyses, the Arabian planned and did as I shall show: he filled camel-skins with water and loaded live camels with these; which done, he drove them into the waterless land and there awaited Cambyses’ army.
*This is the most credible of the stories told; but I must relate the less credible tale also, since they tell it. There is a great river in Arabia called Corys, issuing into the sea called Red. From this river (it is said) the king of the Arabians carried water by a duct of sewn ox‑hides and other hides of a length sufficient to reach to the dry country; and he had great tanks dug in that country to receive and keep the water. It is a twelve days’ journey from the river to that desert. By three ducts (they say) he led the water to three several places.*Herodotus Book III:9
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