3. Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman giving birth. I am too bent to hear, I am too dismayed to see.
4. My mind staggers; fear terrifies me; the twilight I desired brought me fear.
5. Set out the table in order! Spread out the rugs! Eat! drink! Rise up, commanders; smear the shield!
6. For the Lord said this to me: “Go, set a watchman in position. He must announce what he sees.
7. When he sees riders, a pair of horsemen, riders of donkeys, riders of camels, then he must listen attentively, paying attention, paying special attention.”