MKJV(i)
1 The burden against the desert of the sea: As tempests in the south pass, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
2 A harsh vision is revealed to me; the deceiver deceives, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media! I have caused all her sighing to cease.
3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a woman who travails; I was bowed down from hearing; I was troubled from seeing.
4 My heart wanders, terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink; arise, rulers. Anoint the shield.
6 For so Jehovah has said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.
7 And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, a chariot of an ass, and a chariot of a camel. And let him listen, very attentively.
8 And he cried, A lion! My lord, without ceasing, I stand on the 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 horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon has fallen, has fallen! And all the graven images of her gods He has smashed to the ground.
10 O my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard of Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.