5. [They are] setting the shulchan, spreading the tzafit (dining carpet), to eat, to drink; arise, ye sarim (princes), and anoint the mogen.
6. For thus hath Adonoi said unto me, Go, post the metzapeh (watchman), let him report what he seeth.
7. When he sees riders with a pair of parashim, donkey riders and camel riders, then he pays heed diligently with great care;
8. And the one seeing cried out, Adoni, I stand continually on the mitzpeh (watchtower) in the daytime, and I am set in my mishmeret (guard duty) kol halailot (every night),
9. And, hinei, here cometh a merkavah with a man, a pair of parashim. And he answered and said, Bavel (Babylon) is fallen, is fallen; and all the pesilim (images) of her elohim (g-ds) hath been shattered on the ground.
10. O my threshed [people], and the grain of my goren (threshing floor); that which I have heard of Hashem Tzva'os Elohei Yisroel, have I declared unto you.
11. The massa (burden) of Dumah [Edom]. One calleth to me out of Seir [Edom], Shomer (watchman), what of the lailah? Shomer, what of the lailah?
12. The shomer said, The boker cometh, and also the lailah; if ye will inquire, inquire ye; shuvu (return), come.