1. Isaiah 21:2 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why was the vision that Isaiah saw a stern one?

Isaiah 21:2 (ESV)

2 A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

The message was upsetting and difficult to listen to. Isaiah's intense reaction to what he saw and heard follows in the next verse.