| 1: The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
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| 2: A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer
dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege,
O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. |
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| 3:
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold
upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at
the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. |
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| 4: My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. |
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| 5: Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise,
ye princes, and anoint the shield. |
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| 6: For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let
him declare what he seeth. |
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| 7: And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of
asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much
heed: |
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| 8: And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: |
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| 9: And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of
horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and
all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. |
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| 10: O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have
heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
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| 11: The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? |
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| 12: The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if
ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come. |
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| 13: The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. |
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| 14: The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that
was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. |
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| 15: For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from
the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. |
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| 16: For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according
to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: |
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| 17: And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of
the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel
hath spoken it. |
