^{5 Ref} They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

^{6 Ref} For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he seeth:

^{7 Ref} and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.

^{8 Ref} And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;

^{9 Ref} and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.

^{10 Ref} O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

^{11 Ref} The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

^{12 Ref} The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.