Isaiah 21:2-9

2A 1harsh vision has been shown to me; The 2treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, 3Elam, lay siege, Media; I have made an end of all 4the groaning she has caused.3For this reason my 5loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a 6woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.4My 7mind reels, 8horror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been 9turned for me into trembling.5They 10set the table, they 11spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; “Rise up, captains, oil the shields,” 6For thus the Lord says to me, “Go, station the lookout, let him 12report what he sees.7When he sees 13riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention.” 8Then 14the lookout called, “15O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.9Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one said, “16Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the 17images of her gods 18are shattered on the ground.”