5 People are rushing around shouting their orders: “Set the table! Post the guard! Get something to eat and drink! Officers, get up! Polish your shields!”
6 The Lord said to me, “Go find someone to guard this city. He must report whatever he sees.
7 Whether he sees a chariot and a team of horses or men riding donkeys or camels, he must listen carefully.”
8 Then one day the watchman called out, “My master, every day I have been in the watchtower watching. Every night I have been standing on duty.
9 Look! I see a man in a chariot with a team of horses.” The messenger said, “Babylon has been defeated! It has fallen to the ground! All the statues of her false gods were thrown to the ground and broken to pieces.”
10 My people, you will be like the grain crushed on my threshing floor. I have told you everything I heard from the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel.
11 This is a message about Dumah: There is someone calling to me from Seir, “Guard, how much of the night is left? How much longer will it be night?”