Isaiah 21:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THE MOURNFUL, inspired prediction (a burden to be lifted up) concerning the Desert of the Sea [which was Babylon after great dams were raised to control the waters of the Euphrates River which overflowed it like a sea–and would do so again]: As whirlwinds in the South (the Negeb) sweep through, so it [the judgment of God by hostile armies] comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹ An oracle about the wilderness near the sea. Like whirlwinds sweeping through the arid southern plain, it comes from the desert, from a fearsome land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ The burden of the desert of the sea. Just as the whirlwinds approach from Africa, it approaches from the desert, from a terrible land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ THE burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

Isaiah 21:1 Cross References

Job 37:9

From its chamber comes the whirlwind and cold from the scattering winds.

Isaiah 13:1

The oracle concerning Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 13:13

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place at the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 14:1

But the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and will settle them in their own land, and aliens will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:14

I will ascend to the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Isaiah 14:23

And I will make it a possession of the screech owl and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 17:1

An oracle concerning Damascus. See, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 47:1

Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

Isaiah 5:28

their arrows are sharp; all their bows strung; their horses’ hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind.

Jeremiah 51:1

Thus says the Lord: I am going to stir up a destructive wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai,

Jeremiah 51:42

The sea has risen over Babylon; she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.

Jeremiah 51:51

We are put to shame, for we have heard insults; dishonor has covered our faces, for aliens have come into the holy places of the Lord’s house.

Ezekiel 1:4

As I looked, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud with brightness around it and fire flashing forth continually and in the middle of the fire something like gleaming amber.

Ezekiel 30:11

He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

Ezekiel 31:12

Foreigners from the most terrible of the nations have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in all the watercourses of the land, and all the peoples of the earth went away from its shade and left it.

Ezekiel 38:9

You shall advance, coming on like a storm; you shall be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.

Daniel 11:40

“At the time of the end the king of the south shall attack him. But the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen and with many ships. He shall advance against countries and pass through like a flood.

Zechariah 9:14

Then the Lord will appear over them, and his arrow go forth like lightning; the Lord God will sound the trumpet and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.