Isaiah 21:2-4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²A troubling vision is declared to me:
‘The treacherous one acts treacherously,^(A)
and the destroyer destroys.
Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!
I will put an end to all the groaning.’

³Therefore I am^[a] filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labour.^(B)
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.
⁴My heart staggers;
horror terrifies me.
He has turned my last glimmer of hope^[b]
into sheer terror.^(C)