5. They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
6. For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
7. When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
8. He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
9. 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.