Isaiah 21:3-9 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish. Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Therefore my loins are filled with anguish. Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see. ⁴ My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me. ⁵ They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, ye rulers, anoint the shield. ⁶ For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. ⁷ and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed. ⁸ And he cried out as a lion, O Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and am set in my ward whole nights, ⁹ and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon. And all the graven images of her gods are broken to the ground.