The burden of the desert of the sea. As storms in the south sweep on; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

A grievous vision is declared to me; He who desires to be treacherous may be treacherous, and he who desires to spoil may spoil, Go up, O ῾Elam: besiege, O Maday; all its sighing have I made to cease.

Therefore are my loins filled with anguish: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I was bowed down so that I could not hear; I was dismayed so that I could not see.

My heart reeled, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure has he turned for me into terror.

Prepare the table, spread the carpet, eat, drink: arise, princes, and anoint the shield.

For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.

And if he should see riders, pairs of horsemen, riders on asses, riders on camels; he should hearken diligently with much heed:

and he cried like a lion: My Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I stand on guard whole nights:

and, behold, here come men riding, pairs of horsemen. And he answered and said, Bavel is fallen, is fallen; and all the carved images of her gods he has broken to the ground.

O my trodden one, and child of my threshing floor; that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Yisra᾽el, have I declared to you.

The burden of Duma. One calls to me out of Se῾ir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if you will inquire, inquire: return, come.

The burden upon ῾Arav. In the forest, in ῾Arav shall you lodge, O travelling companies of Dedanim.

O inhabitants of the land of Tema, bring water to him that is thirsty, meet the fugitive with bread.

For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

For thus the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Qedar shall fail:

And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Qedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Yisra᾽el has spoken it.