Isaiah

⁴My heart falters, fear makes me tremble; the twilight I longed for has become a horror to me. ⁵They set the tables, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers, oil the shields! ⁶This is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees. ⁷When he sees chariots with teams of horses, riders on donkeys or riders on camels, let him be alert, fully alert.” ⁸And the lookout shouted, “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; every night I stay at my post. ⁹Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: ‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!’ ” ¹⁰My people who are crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the Lord Almighty, from the God of Israel.