1The burden of the desert sea. As the whirlwinds in the South used to pass from the wilderness, so shall it come from the horrible land.
2A grievous vision was showed unto me, The Transgressor against a transgressor, and the destroyer against a destroyer. Go up Elam, besiege Media: I have caused all the mourning thereof to cease.
3Therefore are my loins filled with sorrow: sorrows have taken me as the sorrows of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down when I heard it, and I was amazed when I saw it.
4Mine heart failed: fearfulness troubled me: the night of my pleasures hath he turned into fear unto me.
5Prepare thou the table: watch in the watch tower: eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield:
6For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, to tell what he seeth.
7And he saw a chariot with two horsemen: a chariot of an ass, and a chariot of a camel: and he hearkened and took diligent heed.
8And he cried, A lion: my Lord, I stand continually upon the watch tower in the daytime, and I am set in my watch every night:
9And behold, this man’s chariot cometh with two horsemen. And he answered and said, Babel is fallen: it is fallen, and all the images of her gods hath he broken unto the ground.
10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor. That which I have heard of the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, have I showed unto you.
11The burden of Dumah, he calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what was in the night? Watchman, what was in the night?
12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night. If ye will as he, inquire: return and come.
13The burden against Arabia. In the forest of Arabia shall ye tarry all night, even in the ways of Dedanites.
14O inhabitants of the land of Tema, bring forth water to meet the thirsty, and prevent him that fleeth with his bread.
15For they flee from the drawn swords, even from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Yet a year according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail.
17And the residue of the number of the strong archers of the sons of Kedar shall be few: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.