Isaiah 21:5-12

JPS_ASV_Byz(i) 5 They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink - 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.' 6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth! 7 And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed. 8 And he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O Lord, I stand continually in the daytime, and I am set in my ward all the nights.' 9 And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs. And he spoke and said: 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.' 10 O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor, that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. 11 The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?' 12 The watchman said: 'The morning cometh, and also the night - if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'