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[1]THE burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.
[2]A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully : and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.
[3]Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.
[4]My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
[5]Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
[6]For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
[7]And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.
[8]And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.
[9]Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.
[10]O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.
[11]The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?
[12]The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.
[13]The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.
[14]Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.
[15]For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.
[16]For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.
[17]And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.
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