Isaiah 21:5-12

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.”

10O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, what I heard from Adonai Tzva’ot, God of Israel, I have declared to you.

11The burden of Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

12The watchman said, “Morning comes, yet also it is night.” If you would inquire, inquire. Come back again.”