2A hard vision appeared to us: an oppressor oppresses and a plunderer plunders. Go up Eelam and the mountains of Media, and I ended all its groaning

3Because of this, my guts are filled with quaking and terror seized me as the terror of a woman in labor. I shook so that I could not hear and I was disturbed that I could not see

4My heart strayed and terrors made me shake, and the beauties of my desire put terror into me

5Prepare the tables! Watch the watchtowers! Eat and drink! Arise Princes, anoint the shields!

6Because thus LORD JEHOVAH said to me: "Go set a Watchman, so that anything that he sees he will show"

7And he saw a mount of two horsemen riding a donkey and riding a camel, and I listened to a great report

8And the Watchman called in my ear and said: "I, LORD JEHOVAH, stand constantly by day, and I stand on all nights upon my watch station

9And behold, a man came from the riders of the horsemen and answered and said: “Babel has fallen and all of its gods! The carved images have been broken down in the land!

10He who reaps and he who wears out the threshing floor. The thing that I heard from LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel, I have shown you”

11The burden of Duma called to me from Seir: "Watchman, what is there in the night?"

12The Watchman said "The dawn comes, also the night. If you seek, seek. You are coming again!”

13The burden of Arabia: "In the evening you shall dwell in the forest, in the road of Durnim

14Bring water to meet the thirsty inhabitants of the land of the south. Meet the scattered ones with your bread

15Because they are scattered from before the sword and from before the point of a poisoned arrow, and from before the full bow, and from before the strength of war

16Because thus LORD JEHOVAH said to me: “In a whole year, like the years of a hired man, all the honor of Qedar will end 17And the remainder of the number of archers, the men of the sons of Qedar shall be diminished, because LORD JEHOVAH God of Israel has spoken