Isaiah 21:4
What does Isaiah 21:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 21:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
KJV
King James Version · 1611My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890My heart panteth, horror affrighteth me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me.
Context
v.3Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
v.4This passage
v.5They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
- Nahum 1:10
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
- 2 Samuel 13:28
And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; fear not; have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
- Luke 21:34
But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:
- Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
- Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
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