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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Isaiah 21: 9 And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs. And he spoke and said: 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.'
Isaiah 21: 10 O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor, that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
Isaiah 21: 11 The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'
Isaiah 21: 12 The watchman said: 'The morning cometh, and also the night--if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'
Isaiah 21: 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.
Isaiah 21: 14 Unto him that is thirsty bring ye water! The inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitive with his bread.
Isaiah 21: 15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Isaiah 21: 16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me: 'Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail;
Isaiah 21: 17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished; for the LORD, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.'
Isaiah 22: 1 The burden concerning the Valley of Vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops,
Isaiah 22: 2 Thou that art full of uproar, a tumultuous city, a joyous town? Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
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