4. My heart withered. The darkness stupefied me. Babylon, my beloved, has become a wonder to me.
5. Prepare the table. Contemplate, from a place of observation, those who eat and drink. Rise up, you leaders! Take up the shield!
6. For the Lord has said this to me: "Go and station a watchman. And let him announce whatever he will see."
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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!
10. 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."
11. The burden of Dumah, cried out to me from Seir: "Watchman, how goes the night? Watchman, how goes the night?"
12. The watchman said: "Morning approaches with the night. If you are seeking: seek, and convert, and approach."
13. The burden in Arabia. In the forest you shall sleep, in the evening on the paths of Dedanim.
14. You who inhabit the land of the south: upon meeting the thirsty, bring water; meet the fugitive with bread.