Isaiah 21:5-12

5Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.

6For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

7And he saw chariots, horsemen by pairs, a chariot with asses, a chariot with camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed.

8And he cried [as] a lion, Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights.

9— And behold, there cometh a chariot of men; horsemen by pairs. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her 1gods he hath broken unto the ground.

10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor! What I have heard of Jehovah of hosts, the 2God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

11The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire; return, come.