Isaiah 21:13
New International Version
A prophecy against Arabia: You caravans of Dedanites, who camp in the thickets of Arabia,

New Living Translation
This message came to me concerning Arabia: O caravans from Dedan, hide in the deserts of Arabia.

English Standard Version
The oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

Berean Standard Bible
This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

King James Bible
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

New King James Version
The burden against Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites.

New American Standard Bible
The pronouncement about Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, You caravans of Dedanites.

NASB 1995
The oracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.

NASB 1977
The oracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.

Legacy Standard Bible
The oracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.

Amplified Bible
The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, Caravans of Dedanites.

Christian Standard Bible
A pronouncement concerning Arabia: In the desert brush you will camp for the night, you caravans of Dedanites.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
An oracle against Arabia: In the desert brush you will camp for the night, you caravans of Dedanites.

American Standard Version
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The burden of Arabia: "In the evening you shall dwell in the forest, in the road of Durnim

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou mayest lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Daedan.

Contemporary English Version
This is a message for Arabs who live in the barren desert in the region of Dedan: You must order your caravans

Douay-Rheims Bible
The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.

English Revised Version
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanites.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is the divine revelation about Arabia. You caravan of travelers from the people of Dedan will spend the night in the forest of Arabia.

Good News Translation
This is a message about Arabia. People of Dedan, you whose caravans camp in the barren country of Arabia,

International Standard Version
A message concerning Arabia. "You will camp in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of the Dedanites.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The burden upon Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.

Literal Standard Version
The burden on Arabia. You lodge in a forest in Arabia, | O caravans of Dedanim.

Majority Standard Bible
This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

New American Bible
Oracle: in the steppe: In the thicket in the steppe you will spend the night, caravans of Dedanites.

NET Bible
Here is a message about Arabia: In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night, you Dedanite caravans.

New Revised Standard Version
The oracle concerning the desert plain. In the scrub of the desert plain you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

New Heart English Bible
The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.

Webster's Bible Translation
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye traveling companies of Dedanim.

World English Bible
The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.

Young's Literal Translation
The burden on Arabia. In a forest in Arabia ye lodge, O travellers of Dedanim.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
A Prophecy Against Arabia
13This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites. 14Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.…

Cross References
Genesis 10:7
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Isaiah 21:12
The watchman replies, "Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again."

Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

Jeremiah 25:24
all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;

Jeremiah 49:8
Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.

Jeremiah 49:28
Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: "Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!

Ezekiel 27:15
The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.


Treasury of Scripture

The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall you lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanim.

Arabia

1 Kings 10:15
Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.

Jeremiah 25:23,24
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners, …

Jeremiah 49:28-33
Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east…

o ye

Isaiah 13:20
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

Genesis 25:3
And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

1 Chronicles 1:9,32
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan…

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Isaiah 21
1. The prophet, bewailing the captivity of his people,
6. sees in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians.
11. Edom, scorning the prophet, is moved to repentance.
13. The set time of Arabia's calamity.














(13) The burden upon Arabia.--Better, of the evening land. Here, again, the prophet alters the form of the word (Arab into Ereb) so as to convey a mystic meaning. The land of which he is about to speak is a land of shadow and of gloom. Evening is falling on it. It is a question whether the second Arabia is to retain its geographical form or to be translated "evening," as before. In any case, of course, Arabia is the country spoken of. The "Dedanites" appear in Jeremiah 49:8; Ezekiel 25:13, and seem from Ezekiel 27:15 to have been dwelling in the neighbourhood of the Edomites (Jeremiah 49:8) as a commercial people trading with Tyre in ebony and ivory. The point of the oracle against them is that they shall be compelled by the presence of the Assyrian armies to leave the main lines of their traffic, probably, as before, on their way westward to Tyre, and to take bye-paths, pitching their tents not near towns and villages, but in the low brushwood of the wilderness.

Verses 13-17. - THE BURDEN OF ARABIA. Edom will have companions in misfortune among the Arab tribes upon her borders, Dedan, Tema, and Kedar. War will enter their territory, derange their commerce (ver. 13), cause flight and privation (vers. 14, 15), and within a year greatly diminish the number of their fighting men (vers. 16, 17). The date of the prophecy is uncertain, but can scarcely be earlier than B.C. 715, when Sargon made an expedition into Arabia (O. Smith, 'Eponym Canon,' p. 66). Verse 13. - The burden upon Arabia; rather, in Arabia. The phrase is varied from its usual form, probably because it is not Arabia generally, but only certain of the more northern tribes, on whom calamity is about to fall. In the forest... shall ye lodge. The word used is commonly translated "forest;" but Arabia has no forests, and the meaning here must be "brushwood." Thorny bushes and shrubs are common in all parts of Arabia. The general meaning is that the caravans will have to leave the beaten track, and obtain such shelter and concealment as the scanty brushwood of the desert could afford. Ye traveling companies of Dedanim. The Dedanim, or Dedanites, were among the chief traders of the Arabian peninsula. They had commercial dealings with Tyre, which they supplied with ivory, ebony, and "precious clothes for chariots" (Ezekiel 27:15, 20). This trade they carried on by means of large caravans - the "travelling companies" of the present passage. They are thought to have had their chief settlements on the shores of the Persian Gulf, where the island of Dadan may be an echo of their name.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
[This is] an oracle
מַשָּׂ֖א (maś·śā)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4853: A burden, tribute, porterage, an utterance, chiefly a, doom, singing, mental, desire

concerning Arabia:
בַּעְרָ֑ב (ba‘·rāḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6152: Arabia -- 'steppe-dwellers', a country East of Israel

In the thickets
בַּיַּ֤עַר (bay·ya·‘ar)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3293: A copse of bushes, a forest, honey in the comb

of Arabia
בַּעְרַב֙ (ba‘·raḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6152: Arabia -- 'steppe-dwellers', a country East of Israel

you must lodge,
תָּלִ֔ינוּ (tā·lî·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 3885: To stop, to stay permanently, to be obstinate

O caravans
אֹֽרְח֖וֹת (’ō·rə·ḥō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 736: A traveling company, caravan

of Dedanites.
דְּדָנִֽים׃ (də·ḏā·nîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 1720: Dedanites -- descendants or inhabitants of Dedan


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