Isaiah 21:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² A stern vision is told to me; the betrayer betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² A hard and grievous vision is declared to me: the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All the sighing [caused by Babylon's ruthless oppressions] I will cause to cease [says the Lord]. [Isa. 11:11; 13:17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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.

Common English Bible

² A harsh vision was proclaimed to me: The betrayer betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media! Put an end to all her groaning.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² A difficult vision has been announced to me: he who is unbelieving, he acts unfaithfully, and he who is a plunderer, he devastates. Ascend, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I have caused all its mourning to cease.

Isaiah 21:2 Cross References

Jeremiah 49:34

The word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning Elam, at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to the destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom no one has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have stopped dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I pine away; I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

Psalm 60:3

You have made your people suffer hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.

Revelation 13:10

If you are to be taken captive, into captivity you go; if you kill with the sword, with the sword you must be killed. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

Daniel 5:28

peres: your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 8:20

As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their evildoing come before you, and deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my groans are many, and my heart is faint.

Jeremiah 51:53

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, from me destroyers would come upon her, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him disgorge what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer stream to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.

Jeremiah 51:11

Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, vengeance for his temple.

Jeremiah 50:34

Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:14

Take up your positions around Babylon, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her; spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 45:3

You said, “Woe is me! The Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”

Jeremiah 31:25

I will satisfy the weary, and all who are faint I will replenish.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he the child in whom I delight? As often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore I am deeply moved for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 22:6

Elam bore the quiver with chariots and cavalry, and Kir uncovered the shield.

Proverbs 13:15

Good sense wins favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.

Psalm 79:11

Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

1 Samuel 24:13

As the ancient proverb says, ‘Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness,’ but my hand shall not be against you.

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria; he carried the Israelites away to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Psalm 25:3

Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

Psalm 119:158

I look at the faithless with disgust because they do not keep your commands.

Daniel 5:9

Then King Belshazzar became greatly terrified, and his face turned pale, and his lords were perplexed.

Genesis 10:22

The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Isaiah 11:11

On that day the Lord will again raise his hand to recover the remnant that is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

Isaiah 14:4

you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased! How his insolence has ceased!

Isaiah 14:7

The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.

Jeremiah 25:25

all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;

Jeremiah 49:35

Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might,

Daniel 8:2

In the vision I saw myself in Susa the capital, in the province of Elam, and I was by the Ulai Gate.