1. The burden of the wilderness of the sea. `Like hurricanes in the south for passing through, From the wilderness it hath come, From a fearful land.
2. A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.
3. Therefore filled have been my loins [with] great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.
4. Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,
5. Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,
6. For thus said the Lord unto me: `Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.'
7. And he hath seen a chariot--a couple of horsemen, The rider of an ass, the rider of a camel, And he hath given attention--He hath increased attention!
8. And he crieth--a lion, `On a watch-tower my lord, I am standing continually by day, And on my ward I am stationed whole nights.