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."
8 Then the seer called out:"Upon a watchtower, Lord,I’m standing all day;and upon my observation postI’m stationed throughout the night.
9 Here they come:charioteers, pairs of horsemen!"One spoke up and said,"Fallen, fallen is Babylon,and all the images of her godsare shattered on the ground!"