Isaiah 21:2-9

2A harsh vision has been shown to me: “The traitor betrays, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, Elam! Besiege, Media! I have put an end to all her groaning.”

3Therefore my body is filled with pain. Pangs have taken hold of me like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bewildered by what I hear, terrified by what I see.

4My heart is bewildered, terror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned into trembling.

5Set the table, spread out the cloth! Eat! Drink! “Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!”

6For Adonai has said to me. “Go, post a watchman— let him declare what he sees!

7When he sees a chariot with a pair of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, let him pay attention— very close attention!”

8Then he cried out like a lion: “Upon the watch tower, Adonai, I stand continually in the daytime, and stay at my post every night.

9Look! Here comes a chariot of men, with a pair of horsemen.” Then one answered and said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods are broken on the ground.”