1<\/sup>The burden of the desert of the sea. Just as the whirlwinds approach from Africa, it approaches from the desert, from a terrible land.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>A difficult vision has been announced to me: he who is unbelieving, he acts unfaithfully, and he who is a plunderer, he devastates. Ascend, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I have caused all its mourning to cease.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Because of this, my lower back has been filled with pain, and anguish has possessed me, like the anguish of a woman in labor. I fell down when I heard it. I was disturbed when I saw it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>My heart withered. The darkness stupefied me. Babylon, my beloved, has become a wonder to me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Prepare the table. Contemplate, from a place of observation, those who eat and drink. Rise up, you leaders! Take up the shield!<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>For the Lord has said this to me: “Go and station a watchman. And let him announce whatever he will see.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, and a rider on an donkey, and a rider on a camel. And he considered them diligently, with an intense gaze.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>And a lion cried out: “I am on the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day. And I am at my station, standing throughout the night.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Behold, a certain man approaches, a man riding on a two-horse chariot.” And he responded, and he said: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! And all its graven gods have been crushed into the earth!<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>O my threshed grain! O sons of my threshing floor! What I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have announced to you.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>The burden of Dumah, cried out to me from Seir: “Watchman, how goes the night? Watchman, how goes the night?”<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>The watchman said: “Morning approaches with the night. If you are seeking: seek, and convert, and approach.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>The burden in Arabia. In the forest you shall sleep, in the evening on the paths of Dedanim.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>You who inhabit the land of the south: upon meeting the thirsty, bring water; meet the fugitive with bread.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>For they are fleeing before the face of swords, before the face of a sword hanging over them, before the face of a bent bow, before the face of a grievous battle.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>For the Lord said this to me: “After one more year, just like one year for a hired hand, all the glory of Kedar will be taken away.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>And the remainder of the multitude of strong archers from the sons of Kedar will be few, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”<\/span> <\/p>\n