Isaiah 21:2-9 Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings.

MSTC⁽ⁱ⁾ ² Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings. ³ With this, the reins of my back were full of pain: Pangs came upon me, as upon a woman in her travail. It made me stoop when I heard it, and it vexed me when I saw it. ⁴ My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear. ⁵ While they garnished the table, the watchman looked: and while he was eating and drinking it was said, "Up, ye Captains, take you to your shield." ⁶ For thus the Lord hath charged me: "Go thy way, and set a watchman, that he may tell what he seeth." ⁷ And when he had waited diligently, he saw two horsemen: the one riding upon an Ass, the other upon a camel. ⁸ And the watchman cried, "LORD, I have stood waiting all the whole day, and am appointed to keep my watch every night. ⁹ And behold, here cometh a chariot of men with two horsemen." And he answered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! She is turned upside down, and all the images of her gods are smitten to the ground!"