1<\/sup>THE burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully : and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.<\/span> <\/p>\n