1 An oracle about the wilderness near the sea.Like whirlwinds sweeping through the arid southern plain,it comes from the desert, from a fearsome land.
2 A harsh vision was proclaimed to me:The betrayer betrays, and the destroyer destroys.Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media!Put an end to all her groaning.
3 Therefore, I’m shaken to my core in anguish.Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.I’m too bent over to hear,too dismayed to see.
4 My heart pounds; convulsions overpower me.He has turned my evening of pleasure into dread—
5 setting the table, spreading the cloth, eating, drinking."Arise, captains!Polish the shields."
6 The Lord said this to me:"Go, post a lookout to report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots, pairs of horsemen,donkey riders, camel riders,he should listen carefully,carefully, very carefully."