5. They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; "Rise up, captains, oil the shields,"
6. For thus the Lord says to me, "Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.
7. "When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention."
8. Then the lookout called, "O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.
9. "Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs." And one said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground."