Isaiah 21:4

My lev panted, 1 fearfulness seized upon me; 1 the neshef (twilight) of my longing 1 hath become unto me as kharadah (shuddering horror). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

In Context

3Therefore are my loins filled with pain; 1 tzirim (pangs) have taken hold upon me, 1 as the tzirim (pangs) of a woman in labor; 1 I was bowed down at the hearing of it; 1 I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 1

5[They are] setting the shulchan, spreading the tzafit (dining carpet), 1 to eat, to drink; 1 arise, ye sarim (princes), and anoint the mogen. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:67In the boker thou shalt say, Would it were erev! And at erev thou shalt say, Would it were boker! For the pachad of thine lev wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

2 Samuel 13:28Now Avshalom had commanded his avadim, saying, Mark ye now when Amnonʼs lev is high with yayin, and when I say unto you, Strike Amnon; then kill him, fear not; have not I commanded you? Be chazak (courageous), and be bnei chayil.

Esther 5:12Haman said moreover, Yea, Ester HaMalkah did let no man come in with HaMelech unto the mishteh that she had prepared but myself; and makhar (tomorrow) am I invited unto her also with HaMelech.

Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a tzon, 1 and their yeladim jump about. 1

Isaiah 5:11Hoy unto them that rise up early in the boker, 1 that they may chase after shechar (strong drink); that continue until night, 1 till yayin inflame them! 1

Jeremiah 51:39In their excitement I will prepare their mishtim (feasts), 1 and I will make them shikkor, that they may rejoice, 1 and sleep shenat olam (a perpetual sleep), 1 and never awake, saith Hashem. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 21:2-11

The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 714.) 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 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. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was… Read the whole commentary →

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