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The burden of the desert of the sea: As tempests in the Negeb pass, it comes from the desert from a terrifying land.

A harsh vision is revealed to me; the one betraying betrays, and the one ravaging ravages. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! I have caused all her sighing to cease.

Because of this my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a travailing woman. I am bowed from hearing; I am troubled from seeing.

My heart wanders; terror overwhelms me; He has made the twilight of my desire into a fear.

Arrange the table; watch in the watchtower; eat, drink; rise up, rulers, and anoint the shield.

For so the Lord has said to me: Go, set a watchman; he will declare what he sees.

And he sees a chariot, a couple of horsemen; a chariot of an ass; a chariot of a camel; and let him bow attentively, very attentively.

And he cried, A lion! My lord, I always stand on my watchtower by day; and I am stationed at my post all the nights.

And, behold, here comes a chariot of a man, a pair of horses. And he answered and said, Babylon has fallen, has fallen! And He has smashed the graven images of her gods to the earth.

Oh my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard of Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have told to you.