A burden of the desert of the sea, like whirlwinds passing through the Negeb, it comes from the desert, from a terrifying land.

A harsh vision has been told to me: the betrayer betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; I have made all her groaning cease.

Therefore, my insides are filled with trembling; pangs have seized me like the pangs of a woman giving birth. I am twisted from hearing; I am terrified from seeing.

My heart wanders; dread has seized me. The twilight I longed for, He has made into trembling for me.

Prepare the table, watch the watchman, eat, drink! Arise, princes, anoint the shield!

For thus יהוה said to me: Go, set up the watchman; whatever he sees, let him report.

And he sees a troop of horsemen, riders in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels. And he listens with great attentiveness.

Then he cries out: 'A lion, I am standing on my watchtower, יהוה, constantly! I am stationed on my guard post all the nights.'

And behold, here comes a troop of horsemen, riders in pairs!' And he answered and said, 'Fallen, fallen is Babel, and all the images of her elohim, He has shattered to the ground.'

My crushed grain and the son of my threshing floor, which I heard from יהוה Tzevaot, the Elohim of Yisra'el, I have told you.

A burden of Dumah. One calls to me from Se'ir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'

The watchman says: 'Morning is coming, and also the night. If you ask, ask; return, come.'

A burden concerning the Arabah. In the forest in the Arabah you lodge, O caravans of Dedanim.

To the thirsty bring water, inhabitants of the land of Temah, meet the fugitive with bread.

For from the face of swords they flee, from the face of a drawn sword, and from the face of a bent bow, and from the face of the intensity of war.

For thus יהוה said to me: Within a year, like the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will cease.

And the remaining number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few, for יהוה, the Elohim of Yisra'el, has spoken.