5 They set the tables,they spread the rugs,they eat, they drink!Get up, you officers,oil the shields!
6 This is what the Lord says to me:‘Go, post a lookoutand let him report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariotswith teams of horses,riders on donkeysor riders on camels,let him be alert,fully alert.’
8 And the lookout shouted,‘Day after day, my Lord, I stand on the watchtower;every night I stay at my post.
9 Look, here comes a man in a chariotwith a team of horses.And he gives back the answer:“Babylon has fallen, has fallen!All the images of its godslie shattered on the ground!” ’
10 My people who are crushed on the threshing-floor,I tell you what I have heardfrom the Lord Almighty,from the God of Israel.
11 A prophecy against Dumah:Someone calls to me from Seir,‘Watchman, what is left of the night?Watchman, what is left of the night?’