The burden of the desert of the sea: As tempests in the Negeb pass, it comes from the desert from a terrifying land.
2A harsh vision is revealed to me; the one betraying betrays, and the one ravaging ravages. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! I have caused all her sighing to cease.
3Because of this my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a travailing woman. I am bowed from hearing; I am troubled from seeing.
4My heart wanders; terror overwhelms me; He has made the twilight of my desire into a fear.
5Arrange the table; watch in the watchtower; eat, drink; rise up, rulers, and anoint the shield.
6For so the Lord has said to me: Go, set a watchman; he will declare what he sees.
7And he sees a chariot, a couple of horsemen; a chariot of an ass; a chariot of a camel; and let him bow attentively, very attentively.
8And he cried, A lion! My lord, I always stand on my watchtower by day; and I am stationed at my post all the nights.
9And, behold, here comes a chariot of a man, a pair of horses. And he answered and said, Babylon has fallen, has fallen! And He has smashed the graven images of her gods to the earth.
10Oh my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard of Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have told to you.
11The burden of Dumah: He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12The watchman says, The morning comes, and also night. If you would inquire, inquire. Come! Return!
13The burden of Arabia: You shall stay in the forest of Arabia, travelers of Dedanites.
14The people of the land of Tema bring water to him who is thirsty; they went to meet the fugitive with his bread.
15For they fled from before swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.
16For so the Lord has said to me, Within a year, as the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall be ended,
17and the rest of the number of the archers, the warriors of the sons of Kedar, shall be few. For Jehovah God of Israel has spoken.