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¹ The burden of the desert of the sea: As tempests in the Negeb pass, it comes from the desert from a terrifying land.² A harsh vision is revealed to me; the one betraying betrays, and the one ravaging ravages. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! I have caused all her sighing to cease.³ Because of this my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a travailing woman. I am bowed from hearing; I am troubled from seeing.⁴ My heart wanders; terror overwhelms me; He has made the twilight of my desire into a fear.⁵ Arrange the table; watch in the watchtower; eat, drink; rise up, rulers, and anoint the shield.⁶ For so the Lord has said to me: Go, set a watchman; he will declare what he sees.⁷ And he sees a chariot, a couple of horsemen; a chariot of an ass; a chariot of a camel; and let him bow attentively, very attentively.⁸ And he cried, A lion! My lord, I always stand on my watchtower by day; and I am stationed at my post all the nights.⁹ And, behold, here comes a chariot of a man, a pair of horses. And he answered and said, Babylon has fallen, has fallen! And He has smashed the graven images of her gods to the earth.¹⁰ Oh my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard of Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have told to you.

¹¹ The burden of Dumah: He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?¹² The watchman says, The morning comes, and also night. If you would inquire, inquire. Come! Return!

¹³ The burden of Arabia: You shall stay in the forest of Arabia, travelers of Dedanites.¹⁴ The people of the land of Tema bring water to him who is thirsty; they went to meet the fugitive with his bread.¹⁵ For they fled from before swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.¹⁶ For so the Lord has said to me, Within a year, as the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall be ended,¹⁷ and the rest of the number of the archers, the warriors of the sons of Kedar, shall be few. For Jehovah God of Israel has spoken.