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.
9 Look! Here comes a chariot of men, with a pair of horsemen.” Then one answered and said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods are broken on the ground.”
10 O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, what I heard from Adonai Tzva’ot, God of Israel, I have declared to you.