1. The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
5. Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
6. For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?