^{2 Ref} A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease.

^{3 Ref} Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I can't hear; I am dismayed so that I can't see.

^{4 Ref} My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

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

^{6 Ref} For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he sees:

^{7 Ref} and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with much heed.

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

^{9 Ref} and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. He answered, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.