5 Look! They are preparing a great feast.They are spreading rugs for people to sit on.Everyone is eating and drinking.But quick! Grab your shields and prepare for battle.You are being attacked!
6 Meanwhile, the Lord said to me,“Put a watchman on the city wall.Let him shout out what he sees.
7 He should look for chariotsdrawn by pairs of horses,and for riders on donkeys and camels.Let the watchman be fully alert.”
8 Then the watchman called out,“Day after day I have stood on the watchtower, my lord.Night after night I have remained at my post.
9 Now at last—look!Here comes a man in a chariotwith a pair of horses!”Then the watchman said,“Babylon is fallen, fallen!All the idols of Babylonlie broken on the ground!”
10 O my people, threshed and winnowed,I have told you everything the lord of Heaven’s Armies has said,everything the God of Israel has told me.
11 This message came to me concerning Edom:Someone from Edom keeps calling to me,“Watchman, how much longer until morning?When will the night be over?”