6. For this is what the sovereign master has told me:“Go, post a guard!He must report what he sees.
7. When he sees chariots, teams of horses,riders on donkeys,riders on camels,he must be alert,very alert.”
8. Then the guard cries out:“On the watchtower, O sovereign master,I stand all day long;at my postI am stationed every night.
9. Look what’s coming!A charioteer,a team of horses.”When questioned, he replies,“Babylon has fallen, fallen!All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
10. O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor,what I have heard from the Lord who commands armies,the God of Israel,I have reported to you.
11. Here is a message about Dumah:Someone calls to me from Seir,“Watchman, what is left of the night?Watchman, what is left of the night?”