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¹ A prophecy about the coastal desert:

Like whirlwinds sweeping over the Negev,
it comes from the desert, from a fearsome land.
² A dire vision has been shown to me:
the betrayer betrays, and the spoiler spoils.
‘Eilam, advance! Madai, lay siege!
I will end all groaning.
³ This is why my insides are racked with pain;
I am seized by pangs, like a woman in labor;
wrenched by what I hear,
aghast at what I see.
⁴ My mind reels, shuddering assails me.
The twilight I longed for terrifies me.
⁵ They set the table, light the lamps,
eat and drink —
"Get going, princes! Oil the shields!"
⁶ For this is what Adonai said to me:
"Go, post a watchman to report what he sees!
⁷ If he sees the cavalry, horsemen in pairs,
riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
he must be on alert, on full alert!"
⁸ He calls out like a lion: "My lord,
I stand on the watchtower all day long,
I stay at my post all night."
⁹ Then, as they appeared — the cavalry,
horsemen in pairs — he spoke these words:
"She has fallen! She has fallen — Bavel!
All the carved images of her gods
lie shattered on the ground."
¹⁰ My people, who have been threshed,
grain trodden down on my threshing-floor:
I am telling you what I have heard
from Adonai-Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el.

¹¹ A prophecy about Dumah:

Someone is calling to me from Se‘ir:
"Watchman, how much longer is it night?
Watchman, how much longer is it night?"
¹² The watchman answers:
"Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you want to ask, ask! Come back again!"

¹³ A prophecy about Arabia:

You caravans of D'danim will camp
in the desert growth of Arabia.
¹⁴ Bring water to the thirsty, you who live in Teima,
greet the fugitives with food;
¹⁵ because they are fleeing the sword, the drawn sword,
the bent bow and the press of battle.