MLV(i)
3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish. Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
4 My heart wanders. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, you* rulers, anoint the shield. 6 For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. 7 and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he will listen diligently with much heed.
8 And he cried out as a lion, O Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime and am set in my confinement whole nights, 9 and behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon. And all the graven images of her gods are broken to the ground.
5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, you* rulers, anoint the shield. 6 For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. 7 and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he will listen diligently with much heed.
8 And he cried out as a lion, O Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime and am set in my confinement whole nights, 9 and behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon. And all the graven images of her gods are broken to the ground.