2 A distressing vision is declared to me;The treacherous dealer deals treacherously,And the plunderer plunders.Go up, O Elam!Besiege, O Media!All its sighing I have made to cease.
3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain;Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor.I was distressed when I heard it;I was dismayed when I saw it.
4 My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me;The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.
5 Prepare the table,Set a watchman in the tower,Eat and drink.Arise, you princes,Anoint the shield!
6 For thus has the Lord said to me:“Go, set a watchman,Let him declare what he sees.”
7 And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen,A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels,And he listened earnestly with great care.
8 Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord!I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime;I have sat at my post every night.