Isaiah 21:1-4

A pronouncement  concerning the desert by the sea:  Like storms that pass over the Negev, it comes from the desert, from the land of terror. A troubling vision is declared to me: “The treacherous one acts treacherously,  and the destroyer destroys. Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning.” Therefore I am  filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.  I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see. My heart staggers; horror terrifies me. He has turned my last glimmer of hope  into sheer terror.