5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink; arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
6 For thus has the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman who shall declare what he sees.
7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; then he looked with more diligence;
8 and he cried, A lion upon the watchman. My lord, I stand continually all the day and all night long upon my watchtower.
9 And, behold, this chariot of men comes with a couple of horsemen. Afterwards he spoke and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken unto the ground.
10 O my harvest, and the people of my threshing floor, that which I have heard of the Lord of the hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.
11 The burden of Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of this night? Watchman, what of this night?