Isaiah 21:5-12

5They set the tables, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers, oil the shields!

6This is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.

7When he sees chariots with teams of horses, riders on donkeys or riders on camels, let him be alert, fully alert.”

8And the lookout shouted, “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; every night I stay at my post.

9Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: ‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!’ ”

10My people who are crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the Lord Almighty, from the God of Israel.

11A prophecy against Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

12The watchman replies, “Morning is coming, but also the night. If you would ask, then ask; and come back yet again.”