1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media [Middle-land]’s sighing.

3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t sh'ma ·hear obey·. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

6For 'Adonay [Lord] said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

8He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon [Confusion]; ⁷⁹and all the engraved images of her deities are broken to the ground.

10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have sh'ma ·heard obeyed· from Adonai Tzva'ot [Yahweh Commander of heaven’s armies], the God of Israel [God prevails], I have declared to you.

11The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

12The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”

13The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.

14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

16For 'Adonay [Lord] said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, Elohim Isra'el [He sustains breathing, God of God prevails], has spoken it.”