4. My heart is bewildered, terror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned into trembling.
5. Set the table, spread out the cloth! Eat! Drink! “Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!”
6. For Adonai has said to me. “Go, post a watchman— let him declare what he sees!
7. When he sees a chariot with a pair of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, let him pay attention— very close attention!”
8. Then he cried out like a lion: “Upon the watch tower, Adonai, I stand continually in the daytime, and stay at my post every night.
9. Look! 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.”
10. O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, what I heard from Adonai Tzva’ot, God of Israel, I have declared to you.