CLV(i)
1 LOAD OF THE WILDERNESSES As sweeping whirlwinds in the south rim pass on, from the wilderness coming, from a fearful land,
2 a hard vision is told to me; the treacherous one is treacherous, and the devastator is devastating. Against me is Elam! And against me the agents of Media are coming! Now all sighing through it I cause to cease."
3 Therefore my waist is full with sore travail, and throes hold me as the throes of a bearing woman. I am depraved from hearing, flustered from seeing it."
4 My heart has strayed; shuddering frightens me. The soul to which I am attached brings me into trembling.
5 Arrange the table! Watch, yea, watch! Eat! Drink! Rise, chiefs! Anoint the shield!"
6 For thus says my Lord to me, "Go! Install the watchman. What he shall see, he shall tell."
7 For he may see a chariot, a pair of men, horsemen, a rider on an ass, a rider on a camel.And he attends attentively with much attention."
8 And he is calling, "I am seeing on the watch, my lord! I am standing continually by day, and I am stationed on my charge all the nights."
9 And behold this! Coming is a chariot with men, a pair of horsemen! And he is responding and saying, `Fallen! Fallen is Babylon! And all the carvings and her forbidden idols are broken to the earth.'"
10 My threshed people! And the son of my threshing site! What I hear from Yahweh of hosts, the Elohim of Israel, I tell to you."