3. Therefore are my loins 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 panteth, horror hath affrighted me: the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
5. They prepare the table, they set the watch, 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 in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.
8. And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights:
9. and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.
10. O thou my threshing, and the corn 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: turn ye, come.