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."