LXX2012(i)
1 THE VISION OF THE DESERT. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, [even] from such a land,
2 [so] a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see.
4 My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.
5 Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, you⌃ princes, and prepare [your] shields.
6 For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for yourself, and declare whatever you shall see.
7 And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.
8 Listen with great attention, and call you Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night:
9 and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.
10 Hear, you⌃ that are left, and you⌃ that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts [which] the God of Israel has declared to us. THE VISION OF IDUMEA.