I think the style here is much different from the previous Isaiah writings. Sorry Edward, multiple authors is once again a real possibility! ;-)
These chapters reads as a great poem. Some of the best writing we've read so far. I love the text!
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21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
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21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
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21:6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
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22:13 is a timeless line, co-opted by countless future writers.
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And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
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What the hell does this mean?
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23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
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