Isaiah 21:5-12

5Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet! Eat and drink! Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!

6For the Lord has said to me, “Go, post a lookout; let him report what he sees.

7When he sees riders — pairs of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels — he must pay close attention.”

8Then the lookout reported, “Lord, I stand on the watchtower all day, and I stay at my post all night.

9Look, riders come — horsemen in pairs.” And he answered, saying, “Babylon has fallen, has fallen. All the images of her gods have been shattered on the ground.”

10My people who have been crushed on the threshing floor, I have declared to you what I have heard from the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel.

11A pronouncement concerning Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

12The watchman said, “Morning has come, and also night. If you want to ask, ask! Come back again.”