3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labour. I was distressed when I heard it; I was troubled when I saw it.
4 My heart reeled, horror overwhelmed me; the night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.
5 Prepare the table, spread the mat, eat and drink. Arise, you princes, anoint the shield!
6 For יהוה has said this 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 attentively, very attentively.
8 Then he cried, “A lion, O יהוה! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and I have sat at my post every night.
9 “And see this, a chariot of men coming with a pair of horsemen!” And he spoke up and said, “Baḇel is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her mighty ones He has broken to the ground.”