Catholic Public Domain Version
"My heart withered. The darkness stupefied me. Babylon, my beloved, has become a wonder to me. "
— Isaiah 21:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.”
“My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me. ”
“My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.”
“My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.”
“My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.”
“My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.”
“My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.”
The burden of the desert of the sea. Just as the whirlwinds approach from Africa, it approaches from the desert, from a terrible land.
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.
Because of this, my lower back has been filled with pain, and anguish has possessed me, like the anguish of a woman in labor. I fell down when I heard it. I was disturbed when I saw it.
My heart withered. The darkness stupefied me. Babylon, my beloved, has become a wonder to me.
Prepare the table. Contemplate, from a place of observation, those who eat and drink. Rise up, you leaders! Take up the shield!
For the Lord has said this to me: “Go and station a watchman. And let him announce whatever he will see.”
And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, and a rider on a donkey, and a rider on a camel. And he considered them diligently, with an intense gaze.