9 Look, here comes a chariot of men,horsemen in pairs.”And he answered and said,“Fallen, fallen is Babylon.And all the graven images of her godslie shattered on the ground.”
10 O my threshed people and my afflicted of the threshing floor!What I have heard from the Lord of Hosts,the God of Israel,I have declared to you.
11 The oracle of Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir,“Watchman, how far gone is the night?Watchman, how far gone is the night?”
12 The watchman says,“The morning comes and also the night.If you would inquire, inquire;return again.”
13 The oracle about Arabia. In the forest of Arabia you shall lodge,O traveling companies of Dedanites.
14 Bring water for the thirsty,O inhabitants of the land of Tema;meet the fugitive with bread.
15 For they fled from the swords,from the drawn sword,and from the bent bow,and from the grievousness of war.