Isaiah 21:5-12

5Prepare the table, Set a watchman in the tower, Eat and drink. Arise, you princes, Anoint the shield!

6For thus has the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”

7And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels, And he listened earnestly with great care.

8Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night.

9And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!” Then he answered and said, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground.”

10Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts, The God of Israel, I have declared to you.

11The burden against Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

12The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; Return! Come back!”