2 A harsh vision has been shown to me: “The traitor betrays, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, Elam! Besiege, Media! I have put an end to all her groaning.”
3 Therefore my body is filled with pain. Pangs have taken hold of me like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bewildered by what I hear, terrified by what I see.
4 My heart is bewildered, terror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned into trembling.
5 Set the table, spread out the cloth! Eat! Drink! “Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!”
6 For Adonai has said to me. “Go, post a watchman— let him declare what he sees!
7 When he sees a chariot with a pair of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, let him pay attention— very close attention!”
8 Then he cried out like a lion: “Upon the watch tower, Adonai, I stand continually in the daytime, and stay at my post every night.